He also narrated from ʿAlqamah, al-Aswad, al-Ḥārith al-Aʿwar, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, the judge Shurayḥ, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Ḥakam, Ḥammād, Abū Isḥāq, Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, Ibn ʿAwn, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Makḥūl al-Shāmī, Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ghudānī, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, Mughīrah ibn Miqsam, Muḥammad ibn Sūqah, Mujālid, Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq, Ibn Abī Laylā, Abū Ḥanīfah, ʿĪsā ibn Abī ʿĪsā al-Ḥannāṭ (1), ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Mantūf, Abū Bakr al-Hudhali, and many others besides.
As for his clan: those of them who lived in Kūfah were called “Shaʿbī”; those who settled in Egypt were known as “al-Ashʿūbī”; those in Yemen were called “Āl Dhī Shaʿbayn”; and those in greater Syria were referred to as “al-Shaʿbānī.”
It appears that the tribe of Shaʿbān settled in the meadow of Kafr Batna (2), by which the place came to be identified with them. They are all descendants of Ḥassān ibn ʿAmr ibn Shaʿbayn (3).
Al-Ḥākim Abū ʿAbd Allah said: The sons of ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān ibn ʿAmr—the family of ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī—merged into the main body of the tribe of Hamdān. Al-Shaʿbī was a twin and slight of build; he used to say, “I was crowded in the womb.”
He also related that al-Shaʿbī stayed in Medina for eight months while fleeing from al-Mukhtār. During that time he heard hadith from Ibn ʿUmar and learned arithmetic from al-Ḥārith al-Aʿwar. He was a memoriser and never wrote anything down at all.
Ibn Saʿd (4) said: ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Murrah al-Shaʿbānī informed us and narrated to me