al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Ḥārith, Kathīr ibn al-Ḥārith, al-Qāsim Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the Damascene, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, and many others besides them.
He was counted among the great vessels of knowledge.
Those who narrated from him include: Sufyān al-Thawrī, al-Layth, Rishdīn ibn Saʿd, Ibn Wahb, Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Ḥammād ibn Khālid al-Khayyāṭ, Bishr ibn al-Sarī, Zayd ibn al-Ḥabbāb, Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Burlusī, al-Wāqidī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ—the scribe of al-Layth—Hāniʾ ibn al-Mutawakkil, and many others.
He fled Syria with the Marwānid party, entered al-Andalus in their company, and when ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muʿāwiyah (al-Dākhil) assumed power there, he appointed him as judge over his domains. Toward the end of his life he performed the pilgrimage and related ḥadith in the Ḥijāz and elsewhere.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “He left Ḥimṣ long ago, and he was trustworthy.”
Jaʿfar ibn Abī ʿUthmān al-Ṭiyālisī transmitted from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn that he said: “Trustworthy.”
Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr narrated from Yaḥyā: “Acceptable.”
As for ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, he reported from Yaḥyā: “He is not satisfactory; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd did not approve of him.”
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: “I asked Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd about Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, and he replied, ‘In those days we would not take from him a single letter.’”
ʿAlī also said: “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (ibn Mahdī) considered him reliable.”
Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Farrāʾ said: “Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī related a ḥadith to us from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, and then Abū Isḥāq remarked, ‘He was not someone from whom narrations should be taken.’”
The author comments: I think he was referring to his involvement with the ruling establishment.
Ibn Abī Maryam said: “I heard my uncle Mūsā ibn Salamah say: I came to Muʿāwiyah ibn…"