A great many scholars transmitted reports from him. Among them were: Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—his first cousin; Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī; Sulaymān al-Aʿmash; Sulaymān al-Taymī—these two being his contemporaries; then Shuʿbah, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Shaybān the Grammarian, Sharīk the Judge, Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, Ibrāhīm ibn Adham, al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, Asbāṭ ibn Naṣr, Isrāʾīl, Jaʿfar ibn Ziyād al-Aḥmar, al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muhalhil, Huraym ibn Sufyān, Warqāʾ ibn ʿUmar, Zāʾidah ibn Qudāmah, Wahīb ibn Khālid, Abū Ḥamzah Muḥammad ibn Maymūn al-Marwazī, al-Jarrāḥ ibn Malīḥ Abū Wakīʿ, al-Ḥakam ibn Hishām al-Thaqafī, Salām ibn Abī Muṭīʿ, al-Qāsim ibn Maʿn al-Masʿūdī, Muʿallā ibn Hilāl al-Ṭaḥḥān, Abū ʿAwānah al-Waḍḍāḥ, Abū al-Muḥayyā Yaḥyā ibn Yaʿlā al-Taymī, ʿAbdah ibn Ḥumayd, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Abbār, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Salām, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Muʿtamar ibn Sulaymān, and Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah.
Shuʿbah narrated from Mansūr that he said, “I have never written down a hadith at all.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī remarked, “There was no one in Kūfa with a better memory than Mansūr.”
Ibn al-Bukhārī granted us an ijāzah; Ibn Ṭabarzad informed us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī informed us; al-Ṣarīfīnī informed us; Ibn Ḥabābah informed us; al-Baghawī narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaṣṣār told me; Muṣʿab ibn al-Miqdām narrated to us from Zāʾidah, who said:
“I said to Mansūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, ‘On a day when I am fasting, may I speak ill of the rulers?’ He replied, ‘No.’ I asked, ‘Then may I speak ill of the one who maligns Abū Bakr and ʿUmar?’ He said, ‘Yes.’”
And with this same chain as far as al-Baghawī: Ibn Zanjawayh told me; I heard Ibrāhīm ibn Mahdī say, “I heard Abū al-Aḥwaṣ say:
A daughter of Mansūr ibn al-Muʿtamir’s neighbour once asked her father, ‘Father, what became of the piece of wood that used to stand on Mansūr’s roof?’ He replied, ‘My dear child, that was Mansūr himself; he would spend the night standing in prayer.’”
Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj narrated to us; Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us: “I saw Mansūr—whenever he stood…"