Allah; Abū Rāfiʿ al-Ṣāʾigh; Abū Burdah al-Ashʿarī; Ṣafwān ibn Muḥriz; Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī; al-Jārūd ibn Abī Sabrah; Shuʿayb ibn Muḥammad and his son ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb; ʿAbd Allah ibn Rabāḥ al-Anṣārī; Kinānah ibn Nuʿaym; Abū Ayyūb al-Marāghī; Abū Ẓabiyyah al-Kalāʿī; Abū l-ʿĀliyah; Ḥabīb ibn Abī Ḍubayʿah al-Ḍubaʿī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbbās al-Qurashī; Wāqiʿ ibn Saḥbān; Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah; Shahr ibn Ḥawshab; Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Muzanī—and many others besides.
He was counted among the leading imams of knowledge and practice—may Allah have mercy on him.
Those who transmitted from him include: ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ—despite his seniority—; Qatādah; Ibn Judʿān; Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd; Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd; Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl; Sulaymān al-Taymī; Sayyār Abū l-Ḥakam; ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr al-Laythī; ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Muthannā; Ashʿath ibn Barāz; Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind; ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar; Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād; Ibn Shawdhāb; Maʿmar; Shuʿbah; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah; Salām ibn Miskīn; Ḥātim ibn Maymūn; al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAṭiyyah; Ḥammād ibn Salamah; Ḥammād ibn Yaḥyā al-Abbaḥ; Bakr ibn Khunays; Bakr ibn al-Ḥakam Abū Bishr al-Muzallaq; Baḥr ibn Kanīz; Ḥammād ibn Zayd; Daylam ibn Ghazwān; Saʿīd ibn Zarbā; Suhayl ibn Abī Ḥazm; Abū l-Mundhir Salām ibn Sulaymān al-Qārī; al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Nabras; ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr al-Bāhilī; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār; Mubārak ibn Faḍālah; Marḥūm ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿAṭṭār; Hārūn ibn Mūsā al-Naḥwī; Abū ʿAwanah al-Waḍḍāḥ; ʿUmārah ibn Zādhān; his son Muḥammad ibn Thābit; Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān al-Ḍubaʿī; and many others.
Abū Ṭālib said: I asked Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal about Thābit and Qatādah. He replied, “Thābit was careful and exact in hadith transmission and used to preach to the people. Qatādah likewise preached, had a keener memory, and was a hadith scholar.”