Habbān ibn Salamah, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Muṭahhar, ʿAmr ibn ʿĀṣim, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Maʿnī, Mūsa ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tabūdhakī, Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Shaybān ibn Farrūkh, and a host of others.
Mūsa ibn Ismāʿīl narrated from Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra.
Ayyūb al-Sikhtiyānī said, “No one has preserved the narrations of Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl better than Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra.”
Wuhayb reported: “Ayyūb used to tell us, ‘Take your knowledge from Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra.’ We would go to him in one corner while his father sat in another.”
Qurād Abū Nūḥ said, “I heard Shuʿbah declare, ‘Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra is the foremost man of Basra.’”
Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī said, “Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra narrated to us, and he was one of the finest of men.”
Yaʿlā ibn Manṣūr the jurist recounted, “I asked Ibn ʿUlayya about the leading ḥadīth preservers of Basra … and he mentioned Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra.”
Khālid ibn Nizār related: “I heard Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra say, ‘Sufyān al-Thawrī arrived in Basra and sent for me, saying, “News has reached me that you possess certain hadiths. You can see the state I am in; come to me if it is not burdensome for you.” So I went to him, and he listened to my narrations.’”
Al-Khuraibī remarked, “I have never seen in Basra anyone better than Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra and Marḥūm ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.”
Abū Ṭālib transmitted from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal that he said, “He is reliable—exceptionally reliable.”
Al-Kawsaj reported from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, “Trustworthy, most trustworthy.”
Ibn al-Madīnī said, “Among those who narrated from Thābit, none was more reliable than Ḥammād ibn …”