ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj is truthful and reliable.”

Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī said, “Al-Sarrāj’s supplications were answered.”

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Daqqāq said, “I saw al-Sarrāj slaughter a sacrificial animal on behalf of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) every week or two; then he would call the hadith scholars, and they would eat.”

Abū Sahl al-Ṣuʿlūkī used to say, “Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj—peerless in his specialty, unsurpassed in his calibre—narrated to us.”

The ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Akhram al-Shaybānī said, “Al-Sarrāj enlisted my help in extracting the narrations for Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. I was left astonished by the multitude of hadiths he possessed and the excellence of his source manuscripts. Whenever he came across a narration with a lofty chain, he would say, ‘You simply must write this down.’ I would respond, ‘That is not within our companion’s criteria.’ He would then say, ‘At least intercede for me regarding this single hadith.’”

Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd said, “I saw Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj riding his donkey while ʿAbbās the amanuensis walked before him, commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong, saying, ‘O ʿAbbās! Change that—break that.’”

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim said, “I heard my father say: When al-Zaʿfarānī arrived and proclaimed that the Qur’an was created, I heard al-Sarrāj say, ‘Curse al-Zaʿfarānī!’ The people would roar with curses against him, and he relocated to Bukhara.”

Al-Ṣuʿlūkī said, “We used to say: al-Sarrāj is like a lamp.”

Al-Ḥākim said, “Abū Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan informed us: Ibn Khuzaymah sent me to al-Sarrāj, saying, ‘Tell him to desist from mentioning Abū Khalīfah and his associates, for indeed—’”} ဗ｣Note: The final sentence is incomplete in the source and therefore ends abruptly in the translation as well.}