Among those who narrated from him were: Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥaḍramī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Muḥammad ibn Ḥimyār, Marwān ibn Sālim, Abū al-Mughīrah al-Khawlānī, Abū al-Yamān, Yaḥyā al-Bābluttī, and many others besides them.

Ahmad said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

Ibn al-Madīnī stated, “In Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān’s estimation he ranked higher than ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir.”

Abū Ḥātim said, “I asked Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn about him, and he spoke of him in praiseworthy terms.”

Al-Fallās remarked, “He is firm in hadith.”

Ibn Saʿd said, “He was trustworthy and reliable.”

Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī recounted: “I said to Duḥaym, ‘Who are the firmly established transmitters in Ḥimṣ?’ He replied, ‘Ṣafwān, Ḥarīz, Baḥīr, Thawr, and Arṭāh.’ ”

Abū al-Yamān related from Ṣafwān, who said: “I lived through the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik, and we marched out on a military expedition in Ḥimṣ under the command of Ayfaʿ ibn ʿAbd, in the year 94 AH.”

Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Rabbih and others said that he died in 155 AH.

Al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah said, “He died having exceeded eighty years of age.”

Abū al-Yamān told me that he passed away before al-Awzāʿī.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā, the author of The History of Ḥimṣ, said: “He died at the age of eighty-three, in 155 AH, and he met Abū Umāmah.”

Sulaymān ibn Salamah al-Khabāʾirī asserted that he died in 158 AH.

Al-Ṭabarānī reports: Abū Shuʿayb narrated to us; Yaḥyā al-Bābluttī narrated to us from Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Busr (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
“My father said to my mother, ‘If only you would prepare some food for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.’ So she prepared a dish of tharīd. My father went and invited the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ placed his hand on its top and said, ‘Eat, in the name of Allah.’ They then began to eat from the sides of the dish. When…"