Those who transmitted from him were his son ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Ibn Abī Mulaykah, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, Abū al-Zubayr, and many others.

He was counted among the trustworthy tabiʿīn (Followers) and their foremost imams in Mecca.

He used to remind and admonish the people, and Ibn ʿUmar ﵄ would attend his gatherings.

Hammād ibn Salamah related, from Thābit, who said: “The first person to deliver public exhortations during the caliphate of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb was ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr.” (1)

Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated, from ʿAbd al-Malik, from ʿAṭāʾ, who said: “I entered with ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr upon ʿĀʾishah, and she said to him, ‘Keep it short; reminders weigh heavily’—meaning when you preach.” (1)

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ayman said: “I saw ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr; his hair fell to the nape of his neck and his beard was dyed yellow.”

The author comments: “That was the Sunnah dye.”

He passed away only a few days before Ibn ʿUmar (2).

Another report states that he died in the year 74 AH.

His son ʿAbd Allāh was among the scholars of Mecca.

His grandson Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, known as al-Muḥrim, was weak; he narrated from ʿAṭāʾ and others, and Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī met him.

57 — His Son: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr al-Laythī * (M, 4)
He was given the teknonym Abū Hāshim.
Al-Bukhārī recorded nothing from him.