Sulaymān ibn Abī Shaykh said, “Shurayḥ ibn Hāniʾ lived both in the pre-Islamic period and in Islam, and during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj he recited: (1)

I rose this morning weighed down, grappling with old age;
For many a season I dwelt among the idol-worshippers.
Then I met the Prophet, the Warner,
And after him his Truthful Successor and ʿUmar.
I witnessed the hosts at Ṣiffīn and at the River,
And the day of Mihrān and the day of Tustar,
And Jumayrawāt and al-Mushakkar—
Alas, how very long this life of mine has grown! (2)

Al-Qāsim ibn Mukhaimarah said, “I have never seen a Hārithī superior to Shurayḥ ibn Hāniʾ.”

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and others declared him “reliable.”

Abū Ḥātim as-Sijistānī stated, “Shurayḥ ibn Hāniʾ lived one hundred and twenty years.”

Qays ibn ar-Rabīʿ narrates—from al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ, from his father, from his grandfather Hāniʾ—that Hāniʾ once came as a delegate to the Prophet ﷺ. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ heard people calling him Abū al-Ḥakam and asked, “Why do these people call you Abū al-Ḥakam?”

He replied, “Messenger of Allah, I arbitrate matters among my people, and both sides are pleased with my judgment.”

The Prophet said, “Do you have any children?”

“Yes,” he answered.

“What is the name of the eldest?”

“Shurayḥ.”

The Prophet said, “Then you are Abū Shurayḥ.” (3)

Bashshār ibn Mūsā al-Khaffāf corroborated this, transmitting from Yazīd ibn al-Miqdām, from his father, from his grandfather, the same account.