أبو زرعة هوعالم كبير في علم العلل, وكتب العلل مليئة بأقواله , وعلماء العلل لا يستغنون عنالاستشهاد بأقواله. وهو عالم كبيرفي علم الرجال والجرح والتعديل , وكتب التراجم والطبقات شاهدة على ذلك , فلا يكاديوجد راو إلا وأبو زرعة له قوله ورأيه في جرحه أو تعديله . وهو محدثالعصر: كما وصفه الذهبي, يحفظ من الأحاديث الكثير, وله كثير من المؤلفات . لكن لم يصلنامن هذا المحدث الكبير من كتبه شيئا ولا من تراثه نقلا إلا ما حفظه لنا ابن أبيحاتم وغيره في كتبهم, وهو ليس بالقليل في الجرح والتعديل والعلل ولكنه قليل فيرواية الأحاديث, في هذا المقال ترجمت له وجمعت ما له في الكتب التسعة على قلتها منالأحاديث والعلل.

Abu zara'a is a senior scientist in the science of men. Books of science of men are full of his ideas, and scientists do not dispense to cite his sayings. He is a senior scientist in the science of men, and (al-jarḥ wa altaʻdīl ):discrediting and accrediting. Books of biographies and classes are an excellent example of his efforts. Abu zara'a has a good knowledge of narrators of Hadith, and their discrediting and accrediting. AL-Zahabi said: He is the scholar of this time, because he commits to memory a lot of hadiths, and has a lot of works, but unfortunately none of his books has reached us, except what was saved by Abu Hatem and others in their books. He has a lot of ideas in (al-jarḥ wa al-taʻdīl ):discrediting and accrediting, but his heritage is not so much in the narration. In this article I talked on his life, and collected his ideas in the nine books, in spite of his sayings are not so much