Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Jurayj—despite his seniority—Abu ʿAsim al-Nabil, Muhammad ibn ʿUmar al-Waqidi, ʿAbd al-Razzaq, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Walid al-ʿAdani, and others.

Abu Dawud said: “He was the mufti of the people of Madinah.”

Maʿn related from Malik that Malik said: “Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur once asked me, ‘Malik! Who among the elder scholars still remains in Madinah?’ I replied, ‘Ibn Abi Dhiʾb, Ibn Abi Sabrah, and Ibn Abi Salamah al-Majishun.’”

Al-Waqidi said: “I heard Ibn Abi Sabrah say: ‘Ibn Jurayj said to me, “Write down for me some of your finest hadiths.” So I wrote a thousand hadith for him and handed them over; he neither read them back to me nor did I read them to him.’”

Ahmad ibn Hanbal said: “Al-Hajjaj told me that Ibn Abi Sabrah said to him, ‘I possess seventy thousand hadith concerning what is lawful and what is forbidden.’”

ʿAli ibn al-Madini remarked, “In my view he is like Ibrahim ibn Abi Yahya.” (1)

ʿAbbas reported from Ibn Maʿin, who said: “His hadith are worthless. He came here, the people gathered around him, and he proclaimed, ‘I have seventy thousand hadith. If you take from me as Ibn Jurayj did, then fine—otherwise, do not.’”

Al-Bukhari said: “Weak in hadith.”

Al-Nasaʾi said: “Abandoned.”

ʿAbd Allah and Salih, the two sons of Ahmad, transmitted from their father that “he used to fabricate hadith.”

I say: It is said that his personal name was Muhammad; others say it was ʿAbd Allah.