A group of spinners once brought their dispute before him. One of them said, “This is the sunnah of our Prophet.” He replied, “Rather, it is merely a custom of your own making among yourselves.” (1)

Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah narrated: ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib told us:
“Shurayḥ passed by us, and I said to him, ‘A man has turned his house into a ḥabs (endowment) exclusively for his relatives.’
He thereupon ordered Ḥabīb and said, ‘Let the man hear this: No endowment may infringe upon the fixed shares ordained by Allah.’”

Al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥayy, reporting from Ibn Abī Laylā, said: “It has reached us that ʿAlī allotted Shurayḥ a stipend of five hundred.” (2)

Wāṣil, the freedman of Abū ʿUyaynah, said: “The inscription on Shurayḥ’s signet ring read: ‘The seal is better than conjecture.’” (3)

Ibn Abī Khālid said: “I saw Shurayḥ sitting in judgment wearing a fine silk cloak (mitraf khazz) and a burnus (hooded mantle). I also saw him with a turban on, its tail hanging down his back.” (4)

Al-Aʿmash narrated from Shurayḥ that he used to say: “‘They claim…’ is the kunya of falsehood.” (5)

Manṣūr said: “When Shurayḥ entered the state of iḥram he became as motionless as a deaf serpent.”

Tamīm ibn ʿAṭiyyah said: “I heard Makḥūl say, ‘I frequented Shurayḥ for months on end; I never needed to ask him a single question, for it sufficed me to listen to the rulings he issued.’” (6)