Abu Ja'far al-'Uqayli: Unknown in transmission, his hadith is Munkar and not preserved
Al-Dhahabi: An Imam in recitation, his hadith is permissible, and once said: A companion of Hamza al-Zayyat and the closest of his students to him and the most skilled of them in recitation and the most upright of them in letters, and he is the one who succeeded Hamza in recitation in Kufa, so much so that his peers in recitation under Hamza recited under him because of his mastery