al-Laythī, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, al-Ḥasan ibn Muslim ibn Yannāq, al-Ḥakam, Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī Sufyān, Saʿīd ibn Ḥassān, Saʿīd ibn Sinān—Abū Sinān al-Shaybānī—Sulaymān al-Taymī, Sulaymān al-Aḥwal, Sulaymān ibn Mūsā al-Dimashqī, Abū Shuʿayb al-Ṭayālisī, Ṣadaqah ibn Yasār, al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim, ʿĀmir ibn Muṣʿab and his son ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṭāwūs, ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Najīḥ, ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jazarī, ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayyah al-Baṣrī, Ibn Jurayj—on a single question—ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maysarah, ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Walīd al-Waṣṣāfī, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, ʿAmr ibn Qatādah, ʿAmr ibn Muslim al-Janadī, Qays ibn Saʿd, Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, Mujāhid, Abū al-Zubayr, al-Zuhrī, al-Mughīrah ibn Ḥakīm al-Ṣanʿānī, Makḥūl, al-Nuʿmān ibn Abī Shaybah, Hāniʾ ibn Ayyūb, Hishām ibn Ḥujayr, Wahb ibn Munabbih, and Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Shāmī.
Jaʿfar ibn Burqān narrated from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār who said:
“Tāwūs related a ḥadīth to us—and do not imagine that there is anyone among us whose speech is truer than that of Tāwūs—….”
Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd also reported from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, who said: “I have never seen the like of Tāwūs.”
Ibn ʿUyaynah said: I asked ʿUbayd Allah ibn Abī Yazīd, “With whom would you visit Ibn ʿAbbās?” He replied, “With ʿAṭāʾ and his companions.” I asked, “And with Tāwūs?” He answered, “Why, that man (1) used to go in with the elite.”
Layth ibn Abī Sulaym stated: “Tāwūs would reckon a ḥadīth letter by letter,” and he would say, “Learn for your own sake, for trustworthiness has vanished from the people.”
Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit related that Tāwūs told him: “When I narrate a ḥadīth to you, commit it to writing.”