Mūsā; Isḥāq ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Ṭabbāʿ; Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam; Saʿīd ibn ʿUfair; ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ; al-Naḍr ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār; Yaḥyā ibn Isḥāq; Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr; Ḥassān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāsiṭī; Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Kātib; al-Qaʿnabī; ʿAmr ibn Khālid; Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd; Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith Ṣudrah; and many others, the last of them being Ibn Rumḥ.
He was an ocean of knowledge, yet gentle in his speech.
Rawḥ ibn Ṣalāḥ said: Ibn Luhayʿah met seventy-two of the Followers.
I add: he also encountered a number of those who had accompanied Abū Hurayrah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, and ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: Who in Egypt could equal Ibn Luhayʿah in the sheer volume of his narrations, his precision, and his mastery?!
Isḥāq ibn ʿĪsā narrated to me that he met him in 164 AH, and that his books were destroyed by fire in 169 AH.
Abū Dāwūd reported: I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, “There was no hadith scholar in Egypt except Ibn Luhayʿah.”
Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ remarked: Ibn Luhayʿah’s manuscripts were sound, and he was avid in seeking knowledge.
Zayd ibn al-Ḥubbāb related that Sufyān al-Thawrī said, “With Ibn Luhayʿah are the foundational texts, while with us are the subsidiary reports.”
ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Sahmī said: Ibn Luhayʿah’s house and his books were burned, but his master copies were spared; I copied the work of ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah from his autograph.