ʿAbd Allah ibn Jabr, Muḥill ibn Khalīfah, Abū al-Safar Saʿīd al-Hamdānī, Nājah ibn Kaʿb.
Wakīʿ said that Shuʿbah remarked, “I saw Nājah—the man from whom Abū Isḥāq narrates—playing chess, so I abandoned him and never wrote anything from him.”
Among them were also al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Badr, Ḥayyān al-Bāriqī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī al-Mujālid, and a number of others whom he named.
Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah transmitted the list, then added further names: al-Walīd ibn al-ʿAyzār, Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, Nuʿaym ibn Abī Hind, Ḥabīb ibn al-Zubayr, and Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ.
ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith reported: Shuʿbah told us, “I saw al-Ḥasan rise for the prayer; the people crowded in on him, whereupon he said, ‘These people need someone to restrain them.’ (1)” Al-Ḥasan used to sit by the old minaret at the far end of the mosque.
Ṣāliḥ ibn Sulaymān said, “Shuʿbah had a slight stutter. (2)”
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ said, “I heard Shuʿbah (3) say, ‘Part of a man’s lying is that, twice, he will declare: “It is nothing—just a trifle; it is nothing.” (4)’”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī related that Shuʿbah said, “I used to watch Qatādah’s mouth: if he said, ‘I heard,’ or ‘He narrated to us,’ I would commit his words to memory; otherwise, I left them. (5)”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal observed, “Shuʿbah’s slips were in the names.”
Al-Shāfiʿī said, “Shuʿbah would come to a man—meaning someone who was not qualified…"