and Ibn Abī Wahshiyyah, Muqātil ibn Ḥayyān, Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, Ashʿath ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥuddānī, Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khuthaym, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ziyād al-Makkī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit ibn Thawbān, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bahrām, and a host of others.
Abān ibn Ṣamʿah said, “I said to Shahr, ‘O Abū Saʿīd (1)…,’” and both Muslim and al-Nasāʾī refer to him with this kunya.
Through Ḥanẓalah, from Shahr, he said: “I presented the Qur’an to Ibn ʿAbbās seven times (2).”
Ibn Abī Nahīk reported: “I recited the Qur’an to Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn ʿUmar, and a number of others, yet I have never seen anyone whose recitation was superior to that of Shahr ibn Ḥawshab.”
Al-Bukhārī (3) recorded this in the biographical entry on Shahr, then added: “He heard from Abū Hurayrah, Abū Saʿīd, Umm Salamah, Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allah, and ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr.”
ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh said: ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bahrām narrated to us: “Shahr ibn Ḥawshab reached eighty years of age, and I saw him wearing a black turban whose end hung between his shoulders, with another black cloth tied firmly around his waist. I also saw that he had dyed his beard a reddish black. He visited Bilāl ibn Mirdās al-Fazārī at Ḥawlāyā (4), and Bilāl awarded him four thousand dirhams, which he accepted.”
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh said: ʿUthmān ibn Nuwayrah narrated to us: “Shahr ibn…"