Saʿd ibn Ibrahim, Salim Abu al-Nadr, Talhah ibn Yahya ibn Talhah, ʿAbd al-Majid ibn Suhayl, Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Jahm al-ʿAdawi, and others.
Al-Waqidi said, “He was reliable, learned, a jurist, plentiful in hadith, well-versed in poetry, and he had lost his sight (1).”
Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-ʿIjli said, “He was bleary-eyed, one of the jurists of Medina, trustworthy, a righteous man who had gathered extensive knowledge, and he was the teacher of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz.”
Abu Zurʿah al-Razi said, “Reliable, trustworthy, an imam.”
Yunus ibn Muhammad al-Muʾaddib (2) reported through ʿUmārah (3) ibn Zayd, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhri, who said:
“Abu Salamah used to question Ibn ʿAbbas, but Ibn ʿAbbas would withhold (his knowledge) from him. ʿUbayd Allah, however, approached him with gentle courtesy, and so Ibn ʿAbbas held him in the highest esteem (4).”
ʿAbd Allah ibn Shabib narrated from Yaʿqub ibn Muhammad, from Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, from his father, from al-Zuhri, who said:
“I never sat with any scholar without feeling that I had already exhausted the knowledge he possessed. I frequented ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr until I heard from him nothing but repetition. Only ʿUbayd Allah was different: whenever I came to him I found with him fresh knowledge.”
Yaʿqub ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Qari reported from his father, who said, “I used to hear…"