وحَدَّثَنِي سَلَمَةُ ، حَدَّثَنَا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ جَابِرًا ، يُحَدِّثُ بِنَحْوٍ مِنْ ثَلَاثِينَ أَلْفَ حَدِيثٍ ، مَا أَسْتَحِلُّ أَنْ أَذْكُرَ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا وَأَنَّ لِي كَذَا وَكَذَا ، قَالَ مُسْلِم : وَسَمِعْتُ أَبَا غَسَّانَ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَمْرٍو الرَّازِيَّ ، قَالَ : سَأَلْتُ جَرِيرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ ، فَقُلْتُ : الْحَارِثُ بْنُ حَصِيرَةَ لَقِيتَهُ ؟ قَالَ : نَعَمْ ، شَيْخٌ طَوِيلُ السُّكُوتِ ، يُصِرُّ عَلَى أَمْرٍ عَظِيمٍ.
Salamah narrated to me, al-Humaydī narrated to us, Sufyān narrated to us, he said: ‘I heard Jābir talking about something like 30,000 Ḥadīth [that] I did not regard as permissible to mention anything from, and that to me was like this and that [Ḥadīth].’Muslim said, I heard Abū Ghassān Muhammad bin Amr ar-Rāzī say, ‘I asked Jarīr bin Abd il-Hamīd: ‘Did you meet al-Hārith bin Hasīrah? He said: ‘Yes, [he is a] Shaykh of lengthy silence; he persisted in a grave matter.’