Al-Bukhārī said: “Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to me; Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us, from Mishraḥ ibn Hāʿān, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir:
‘I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, (Had Sūrah al-Baqarah reached three hundred verses, it would have spoken.) (1)’

And via Abū al-Walīd ibn Abī al-Jārūd, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said:
“One may write down from Ibn Luhayʿah whatever predates the burning of his books.”

I (the author) say: He lived seventy-eight years, and it has already been noted that he died in 174 AH.

He was a reservoir of knowledge, one of Egypt’s leading dignitaries and respected figures. Al-Manṣūr ibn ʿAmmār, the well-known preacher, granted him landed estates.

Al-Ramādī, in his History, records: ʿAmr ibn Khālid narrated to us; Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Ḥudayj ibn Abī ʿAmr, who said: I heard al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddād say:
‘I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, (Every nation has an appointed term; the term of my nation is one hundred years. When one hundred years have elapsed for it, there shall befall it what Allah has promised.) (2)’

Ibn Luhayʿah also said: Yazīd ibn ʿAmr al-Maʿāfirī narrated to us, from Ibn Ḥujayrah, who said:
“Seventy people from the community of Moses found shade beneath the skull of a single man from the giants.”

This comes from the Isrāʾīliyyāt (reports traced back to the Children of Israel); the divine power is surely able, yet even if only four people had been shaded by that skull it would still have been remarkable.