He narrated from: ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit; Abū Maḥdhūrah, the muʾadhdhin who married his mother; Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān; Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī; al-Ṣunābiḥī (1); and a number of others.
His step-father’s name was Samurah. I do not know of anyone who has classed Muḥayriz among the Companions, and the apparent conclusion is that he belonged to the ṭulaqāʾ (2).
Those who transmitted from Ibn Muḥayriz include: Khālid ibn Maʿdān, Makḥūl, Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Zuhrī, Abū Zurʿah Yaḥyā al-Saybānī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd Allah, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿAblah, and many others.
He was one of the scholars who acted upon their knowledge and ranked among the leading Successors.
Al-Awzāʿī said: “Ibn Abī Zakariyyā used to come to Palestine and meet Ibn Muḥayriz, and his own soul would feel small beside him because of the virtue he observed in Ibn Muḥayriz.” (3)
ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥayriz said: “My grandfather completed a full recitation of the Quran every Friday, and at times we would spread a mattress for him yet he would not sleep on it.” (4)
Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah said: “If the people of Madinah boast over us about their devotee Ibn ʿUmar,