Among those who narrated from him were Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad the Perfumer, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad ibn Thābit al-Wāsiṭī, and a number of others.

Al-Ḥākim transmitted—on the authority of al-Dāraqutnī—that “there is no harm in him.”

Al-Khaṭīb said: “I saw Abū al-Qāsim al-Lālkāʾī (1) and al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Khallāl declare him weak.” He also remarked: “He has objectionable reports” (2).

He died in 282 AH, having lived beyond a hundred years, for he himself related that he heard from Mūsā al-Ṭawīl, the client of Anas, in Wāsiṭ in 191 AH, saying, “I was thirteen years old at the time” (3).

Ibn ʿAdī states in his Kāmil: ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Warrāq told us, “We bargained with Muḥammad ibn Maslamah for some fascicles; we read them to him and in them was a lengthy ḥadīth. He exclaimed, ‘How excellent this is! By Allah, I have never heard this ḥadīth before this very moment.’”

A man then said to him, “Narrate something from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah.” He replied, “For two full-weight dirhams.”

Ibn ʿAdī then listed a number of anomalies in his narrations.

Nonetheless, his transmission attains a lofty chain in the Ghaylāniyyāt.