Those who narrated from him include: ʿAmr ibn Murrah, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtaybah, Wāṣil al-Aḥdab, Ḥammād the jurist, ʿAbdah ibn Abī Lubābah, ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, Abū Ḥuṣayn, Abū Isḥāq, Nuʿaym ibn Abī Hind, Manṣūr, al-Aʿmash, Mughīrah, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, Zubayd al-Yāmī, Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam, Muḥammad ibn Sūqah, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Khālid, Abū Hāshim al-Rummānī, Abū Bishr, and many others besides.
Al-Zibriqān al-Sarrāj reported from Abū Wāʾil that he said, “I remember that when I was ten years old in the pre-Islamic period I was herding sheep—or, he said, camels—for my family when the Prophet ﷺ was commissioned.”
ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah narrated from Abū Wāʾil who said, “I lived through seven years of the Age of Ignorance.”
Wakīʿ, on the authority of Abū al-ʿAnbas, related: I asked Abū Wāʾil, “Did you live during the Prophet’s ﷺ lifetime?” He replied, “Yes, when I was a beardless youth, though I never saw him.” (1)
Mughīrah narrated from Abū Wāʾil: “The Prophet’s ﷺ alms-collector came to us, so I brought him a ram and said, ‘Take the charity due on this.’ He said, ‘There is no charity due on that.’” (1)
Al-Aʿmash said that Shaqīq ibn Salamah once told him, “O Sulaymān, (2) if only you had seen us fleeing from Khālid ibn al-Walīd on the Day of Buzākhah; (3) I fell off the camel and it almost snapped—”