He narrated from Anas ibn Mālik,
and from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān, Mundhir al-Thawrī, and others.
Those who reported from him include Sufyān al-Thawrī, Abū Muʿāwiyah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Muḥāribī, Ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, and many more.
It is said that he spent one hundred thousand dirhams in charitable causes.
Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah remarked, “Muḥammad ibn Sūqah scarcely knew how to disobey Allah, exalted is He.”
Al-Nasāʾī said, “Reliable, approved.”
I add: he died a little after 140 AH.
45 – Ayyūb ibn Mūsā, Abū Mūsā al-Umāwī al-Makkī * (ʿ)
The imam and jurist who issued fatwās—Abū Mūsā al-Umāwī, the Meccan.
His grandfather was the governor ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Ashdaq.
He was a cousin of the jurist Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, and he was not a brother of the jurist Sulaymān ibn Mūsā mentioned earlier.
Ayyūb ibn Mūsā narrated from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Makḥūl, Nāfiʿ, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Mīnā, and Saʿīd al-Maqburī.
Those who narrated from him include al-Awzāʿī, Rūḥ ibn al-Qāsim, Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, al-Layth, ʿAbd al-Wārith, Mālik, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Ibn ʿUlayyah, and a great many others.
Ibn ʿUyaynah said, “He was a jurist who issued legal verdicts.”
Aḥmad and Abū Zurʿah declared him “reliable,” while Abū Ḥātim said, “His ḥadith is sound.”
Ibn al-Madīnī noted, “He has about forty narrations.”
It was said that he died in 133 AH.