and Abū al-Zubayr, Abū ʿIṣām al-Baṣrī, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥakam, Ayyūb, and Budayl ibn Maysarah.
He would even go so far as to report from Maʿmar ibn Rāshid.
Those who transmitted from him include his two sons, Maʿādh and ʿAbd Allah, as well as Shuʿbah, Ibn al-Mubārak, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, ʿAbd al-Wārith, Ibn ʿUlayyah, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Wakīʿ, Ghundar, Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī, Bishr ibn al-Muḍaffar, Isḥāq al-Azraq, Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Abū Dāwūd, Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith, Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī, Shādh ibn Fayyaḍ, ʿAffān, Abū Nuʿaym, Muʿādh ibn Faḍālah, Abū Salamah al-Tabūdhakī, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū al-Walīd, and a great many others.
Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ said, “I heard Ayyūb order us to seek out Hishām ibn Abī ʿAbd Allah and urge us to take narrations from him.”
Umayyah ibn Khālid related: “I heard Shuʿbah say, ‘There is no one among the people of whom I can affirm that he pursued hadith solely for Allah’s sake except Hishām, the man of the Dastuwāʾī garments. He would say, “If only we could come through this hadith business safely—nothing for us and nothing against us.”’
Then Shuʿbah added, ‘If Hishām says that, what about us (1)?!’”
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmmār ibn al-Ḥārith al-Rāzī, reporting from ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, said that he heard Shuʿbah declare, “Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī retained Qatādah’s narrations better than I did.”
Ibn Maʿīn likewise transmitted that Shuʿbah used to say, “Hishām is more knowledgeable of Qatādah’s hadith than I am and kept his company more than I did.”
Muʿallā ibn Manṣūr said, “I asked Ibn ʿUlayyah about the ḥuffāẓ of Baṣrah, and he mentioned Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī.”