Among those who transmitted from him were Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Abū ʿAwānah, Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān, Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, and others.
His supplications were answered, and a number of extraordinary feats and spiritual states are reported of him. Although he once possessed considerable wealth, when al-Ḥasan’s admonition touched his heart he gave away forty thousand, contented himself with little, and worshipped Allah until the certainty (death) reached him.
Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah said: al-Sarī ibn Yaḥyā related to us: “Ḥabīb would be seen in Basra on the Day of Tarwiyah and the very next day he would be seen in ʿArafah.” (1)
I have cited further accounts of him in my History of Islam, and Ibn ʿAsākir also mentioned him in his History.
55 – al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUrwah al-Nakhaʿī * (M, 4)
The jurist, Abū ʿUrwah al-Nakhaʿī, from Kufa.
He narrated from Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī, Shaqīq Abū Wāʾil, Zayd ibn Wahb, and Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Thawrī, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and ʿAbd Allah.