Abū Hurayrah, Ibn ʿUmar, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah, ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah, ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān, and others.
There is unanimous agreement that his narrations are admissible as proof.
He died sometime around the year 120 AH, having reached advanced age.
61 – ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb ibn Muḥammad al-Sahmī * (4)
A descendant of the Messenger of Allah’s Companion ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil.
He was an imām and ḥadith scholar, known as Abū Ibrāhīm and Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī, al-Sahmī, al-Ḥijāzī—the jurist and muhaddith of the people of Ṭāʾif. He traveled frequently to Mecca, disseminating knowledge, and owned property in Ṭāʾif.
His mother was Ḥabībah bint Murrah al-Jumaḥiyyah.
He narrated—at length—from his father. He also reported from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Ṭāwūs, Sulaymān ibn Yasār, ʿAmr ibn Sharīd ibn Suwayd, ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, Mujāhid, ʿAṭāʾ, Saʿīd al-Maqburī, ʿĀṣim ibn Sufyān, and al-Zuhrī.
He even narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Najīḥ and a number of scholars junior to him.
Among his sources were al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwidh and Zaynab bint Abī Salamah—both Companions—as well as his paternal aunt Zaynab al-Sahmiyyah; he also transmitted mursal reports from Umm Kurz al-Khuzāʿiyyah.
Those who narrated from him include al-Zuhrī, Qatādah, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ—his own teacher—, and ʿAmr ibn