Khalid, ʿAmr ibn al-Harith, Malik—who acquired his understanding of the law from him—Sufyan al-Thawri, Hammad ibn Salamah, Fulayh ibn Sulayman, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Misʿar, ʿUmarah ibn Ghaziyyah, Nafiʿ the Qurʾan-reciter, Ismaʿil ibn Jaʿfar, Abu Bakr ibn ʿAyyash, Ibn al-Mubarak, Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah, Anas ibn ʿIyad al-Laythi, and many others besides.

Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Massisi reported—on the authority of Ibn ʿUyaynah—that Rabiʿah once burst into tears.
Someone asked, “What is making you weep?”
He replied, “A present ostentation, a hidden craving, and the fact that people, when in the presence of their scholars, are like children in their mothers’ laps: if the scholars command, they comply; if they forbid, they refrain!”

Damrah ibn Rabiʿah transmitted from Rajaʾ ibn Jamil that Rabiʿah said, “I find expressing legal opinion lighter upon me than bearing the responsibility of hadith.”

Al-Uwaysi related that Malik said: Rabiʿah would say to Ibn Shihab, “My situation is nothing like yours.”
Ibn Shihab asked, “How so?”
He answered, “I speak according to personal opinion—whoever wishes may accept it and whoever wishes may leave it. You, however, transmit from the Prophet ﷺ, and whatever you narrate is preserved.”

Abu Damrah said: Rabiʿah came upon a group discussing predestination (qadar) and remarked, in effect, “If you are telling the truth, then what lies in your hands is greater than what lies in the hand of your Lord—if good and evil are really in your hands.”

Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-ʿAjli said in his History: My father narrated to me that Rabiʿah was asked, “How did He rise over the Throne (istiwaʾ)?” He answered, “The ‘how’ is beyond comprehension; the Messenger’s duty is to convey, and ours is to affirm.”

It is authentically reported from Rabiʿah that he said, “Knowledge is a means to every virtue.”

Malik said: Rabiʿah visited the Commander of the Believers, who ordered that a slave-girl be given to him. He refused. The caliph then gave him five thousand with which to purchase a slave-girl, but he still refused to accept it.

Ibn Wahb reported that Rabiʿah spent 40,000 dinars on his brothers, and then he began to ask