Those who transmitted from him include: Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Abū Ruhm al-Samʿī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Sulamī, Ḥabīb ibn ʿUbayd, Ḥujr ibn Ḥujr, Yaḥyā ibn Abī al-Muṭāʿ, ʿAmr ibn al-Aswad, al-Muhāṣir ibn Ḥabīb, and several others.
Aḥmad records in his Musnad: “Al-Walīd ibn Muslim related to us; Thawr related to us; Khālid ibn Maʿdān related to me; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Sulamī and Ḥujr ibn Ḥujr told me, saying:
We came (1) to al-ʿIrbāḍ ibn Sāriyah—one of those about whom the verse was revealed, ‘Nor is there blame upon those who, when they came to you so that you might carry them, you said, “I can find no mounts for you to ride upon”’ (Q 9:92). We greeted him and said, ‘We have come to visit, to enquire after you, and to seek knowledge.’
He said: ‘One morning the Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in the dawn prayer. After finishing, he turned to us and delivered an eloquent admonition that made our eyes overflow with tears and our hearts tremble.
Someone said, “O Messenger of Allah, it seems as though this is a farewell sermon. What do you charge us with?”
He replied: “I counsel you to fear Allah, and to hear and obey—even if the leader placed over you is an Abyssinian slave. Whoever among you lives on after me will see great discord, so hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; grip it with your molars. Beware of newly-invented matters, for every innovation is bidʿah, and every bidʿah is misguidance.” (2) ’ ”
It was also transmitted by Ibn al-Madīnī from al-Walīd, who added: Al-Walīd said, “I mentioned it to ʿAbd Allah ibn …”