and Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaqīq al-ʿUqaylī, Thābit al-Bunānī, Ibn Abī Mulaykah, Yūsuf ibn Māhak, and a number of others.
He was a man of hadith, learning, and veracity.
Those who transmitted from him include: ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, Shuʿbah, Ziyād ibn Saʿd, Ibn Jurayj, the two Sufyāns, the two Hammāds, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Zāʾidah, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith, Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar, ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām, Ibn al-Mubārak, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Sāmī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī, Mālik, Hushaym, Wuhayb, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī, Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Sumayʿ, al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl, Quraysh ibn Anas, Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, and many others.
Among his contemporaries who narrated from him was Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī.
It is said that Humayd al-Ṭawīl’s father was among the captives taken in Kabul in 44 AH.
Al-Fasawī relates from Abū Mūsā al-Zamin, who said: “He is Humayd ibn Tayrawayh, though people become annoyed when this is mentioned.”
Ḥāshid ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī said: “I asked Ibrāhīm ibn Humayd al-Ṭawīl, ‘What is your grandfather’s name?’ He replied, ‘I do not know.’”
Al-Aṣmaʿī said: “I saw Humayd; he was not tall, though his arms were long. In fact he was short, not particularly tall. But he had a neighbor called Humayd the Short, so he was dubbed Humayd the Tall to distinguish him from the other.”
Ishāq al-Kawsaj reported from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn that he said: “Reliable.”
Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī said: “A Basran, a Successor, reliable; and he is the maternal uncle of Ḥammād ibn Salamah.”
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: “Reliable, no—”