What is precisely implied by «تَرَكَهُ بَعْضُ النَّاسِ»?

Narrator Criticism: Al-Mughīrah b. Saʿīd, Shaqīq and Jābir al-Juʿfī

• All hadith scholars unanimously stopped taking from Jābir
• Sufyān is speaking only of his own refusal
• The report provides an exact ratio of abandoners
• Some ceased transmitting; unanimity is not claimed