al-Aswad, Masrūq, ʿUbaydah, Abū Wāthilah, Qays ibn Abī Hāzim, Zir ibn Ḥubaysh, al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, Zayd ibn Wahb, his two sons—Abū ʿUbaydah and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—Abū al-Aḥwaṣ ʿAwf ibn Mālik, Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī, and many others.
Those who learned the Qur’anic recitation from him include Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, ʿUbayd ibn Nuḍaylah, and a group besides them.
The two Ṣaḥīḥs agree on 64 hadiths narrated by him. Al-Bukhārī alone relates a further 21, and Muslim another 35. In the Musnad of Baqī, counting repetitions, he is credited with 840 hadiths.
Qays ibn Abī Hāzim said, “I saw him brown-skinned and lightly built.” ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUtbah reported, “ʿAbd Allah was thin, short, deeply complexioned, and he never dyed his grey hair.” Al-Aʿmash narrated from Ibrāhīm: “ʿAbd Allah was gracious and sharp-witted.” I say: he was numbered among the keenest minds of the scholars.
Ibn al-Musayyab said, “I saw Ibn Masʿūd with a large belly and slender legs.” I say: Saʿīd saw him when he reached Medina in the year he died, 32 AH. He was also identified through his mother and was therefore called Ibn Umm ʿAbd.
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd said, “His mother was Umm ʿAbd bint ʿAbd Wudd ibn Suwayy (1), from the clan of Zuhrah.”
ʿAlqamah related from ʿAbd Allah that he said, “The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—gave me the kunya Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.”