He heard ḥadith from his father and from ʿAlī.
Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn Sīrīn, Abū Bishr (1), Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, and others.
He was born during ʿUmar’s caliphate. He was reliable, of high standing, a distinguished Qurʾān reciter, and a scholar.
Shuʿbah said: “He was the most proficient reciter in Basra.”
It is also reported that he used to say, “I am the most fortunate of people: I am the father of forty, the paternal uncle of forty, and the maternal uncle of forty; my uncle is the governor Ziyād, and I was the first child born in Basra.” (2)
He was generous and widely praised; on one occasion he gave a man nine hundred water-buffalo.
Some said that it was his brother who made that gift. (3)
Al-Madāʾinī stated that he died in 96 AH.

115 – Khaythamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Sabrah al-Madhḥijī (ʿ)
He is Khaythamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Sabrah ibn Yazīd ibn Mālik ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dhuʾayb ibn Salamah ibn ʿAmr ibn Dhuhl (4) ibn Murrān ibn Juʿfī of the tribe of Madhḥij, then of the Juʿfī clan; a Kufan jurist.
Both his father and grandfather were Companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
He narrated from his father,
and from ʿĀʾishah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn ʿAmr, Suwayd ibn Ghafalah, and a number of others.
He did not meet Ibn Masʿūd.