Those who narrated from him include: Sufyān al-Thawrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ, Ibn al-Mubārak, Hushaym, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Saʿīd, Aḥmad ibn Bashīr, Wuhaib ibn Khālid, Shuʿayb ibn Ṣafwān, and many others.

He was declared reliable by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, and others.

In the field of the subsidiary rulings of jurisprudence he was counted among the leading imams, yet in hadith he was not prolific; about sixty or seventy reports are traced back to him.

His full name is ʿAbd Allah ibn Shubrumah ibn Ṭufayl ibn Ḥassān al-Ḍabbī.

He was the uncle of ʿUmārah ibn al-Qāʿqāʿ, although ʿUmārah was the older of the two.

The last of his companions to die was Abū Badr al-Sakūnī.

Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-ʿIjli said: “Ibn Shubrumah was chaste, resolute, intelligent, and virtuous—resembling the ascetics. He was a poet, generous and open-handed, and he has roughly fifty hadiths.”

Ibn Fuḍayl narrated from him that he said:
“When al-Ḥārith al-ʿUklī and I concurred on a question, we cared little for anyone who disagreed with us.”

Fudayl ibn Ghazwān said:
“At night I, Ibn Shubrumah, al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd al-ʿUklī, al-Mughīrah, and al-Qāʿqāʿ ibn Yazīd would sit together reviewing jurisprudence, and at times we would not rise until we heard the call to the dawn prayer.”

ʿAbd al-Wārith said: “I have never seen anyone answer questions faster than Ibn Shubrumah.”

Maʿmar said: “I observed that when a man said to Ibn Shubrumah, ‘May I be your ransom,’ he would become upset and reply, ‘Say instead: May Allah forgive you.’”

Ibn al-Simmāk narrated from him that he said:
“Whoever goes to extremes in disputation sins, and whoever falls short is vanquished; a person who becomes preoccupied with which side prevails cannot uphold the truth.”

Ibn al-Mubārak related from him that he said:
“I am amazed at people who abstain from certain foods out of fear of illness, yet do not abstain from sins out of fear of the Fire.”

Aḥmad al-ʿIjli also said: “ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā would not decide any matter without first consulting Ibn Shubrumah.”

He added: “Then Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr sent ʿĪsā his uncle ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī, ordering him to imprison him,”