Yahya ibn Maʿin said, “There is no objection to him.” (1)

ʿAli ibn al-Husayn ibn Ḥibbān transmitted from his father, who said: Abū Zakariyya—meaning Ibn Maʿin—remarked, “Al-Ḥārith ibn Miskīn is better and more virtuous than Aṣbagh.” (2)

Al-Nasāʾī stated, “Reliable and trustworthy.” (3)

Abu Bakr al-Khaṭīb (4) wrote: “He was a jurist—reliable, firmly established. Al-Maʾmūn had him brought to Baghdad during the Inquisition, imprisoned him, and he would not comply. He therefore remained jailed in Baghdad until al-Mutawakkil assumed the caliphate; al-Mutawakkil set him free. He then related hadiths in Baghdad and returned to Egypt, where he again served as Chief Judge. In 245 AH he asked to be relieved of the post, and his request was granted.

He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 250 AH, at the age of ninety-six.

I say: Together with his pre-eminence in knowledge, asceticism, and devotion, he spoke the truth fearlessly and was among the just judges—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Bahr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī said, “We knew al-Ḥārith ibn Miskīn in the days of Ibn Wahb as a man of renunciation, piety, and truthfulness until he died.”