Those who narrated from him include his brother ʿUthmān; Yazīd ibn al-Hād; Abū Jaʿfar al-Khatmī; Abū Sabratah al-Nakhaʿī; al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtaybah; ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb; Ayyūb ibn Mūsā; Usāmah ibn Zayd al-Laythī; Ziyādah ibn Muḥammad; Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥassān; ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī; Ibn ʿAjlān; Abū al-Miqdām Hishām ibn Ziyād; al-Walīd ibn Kathīr; Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ; Muḥammad ibn Rifāʿah al-Quraẓī, and a large number of others.

Ibn Saʿd said: “He was trustworthy, learned, prolific in ḥadīth, and devout.”

Ibn al-Madīnī, Abū Zurʿah, and al-ʿIjlī all declared him “reliable.”

Al-ʿIjlī further noted: “A Madinan Successor, a righteous man, well-versed in the Qur’an.”

I say: He was one of the foremost authorities on Qur’anic exegesis.

Al-Bukhārī said: “His father was among those on the Day of Qurayzah who had not yet grown pubic hair, so he was spared (1).”

He then said: “Ibn Bashshār narrated to us; Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī narrated to us; al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us, from Ayyūb ibn Mūsā, who said: ‘I heard Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī say, “I heard ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd relate from the Prophet ﷺ: ‘Whoever recites a single letter of the Book of Allah receives one good deed.’”’ (2)”

Al-Bukhārī remarked: “I am not sure whether he preserved it accurately or not.”

Abū Dāwūd said: “He heard from ʿAlī and Ibn Masʿūd.”

Qutaybah said: “It has reached me that he was born during the Prophet’s lifetime; al-Tirmidhī heard this from him.”

Abū Dāwūd further reported: “I heard Qutaybah say, ‘It has reached me that Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb saw the Prophet ﷺ.’”

I say: This statement is disconnected and irregular.