and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād, Mālik ibn Mighwal, Kamil Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, along with many others.
Those who reported from him include: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-Maqābirī; Aḥmad ibn Abī Surayj al-Rāzī; ʿAlī ibn Baḥr; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Rajāʾ; Ayyūb ibn Manṣūr al-Kūfī; Ḥasan ibn al-Junayd al-Baghdādī; Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Bazzār; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭanafisī; Maḥbūb ibn Mūsā; ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Sarī, the ascetic; ʿAbd Allah ibn Khubayq al-Anṭākī; Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Ṭūsī; Nuṣayr ibn al-Faraj; Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī; Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ḥayyān al-Madāʾinī; and others besides them.
ʿAbbās narrated from Ibn Maʿīn: “He is trustworthy, reliable.”
Abū Ḥātim said likewise.
Al-Nasāʾī declared: “Trustworthy.”
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd said: “He was of Khurāsānī lineage, originally from Baghdad. He then moved to al-Madāʾin, withdrew there, and was a man of virtue. Later he traveled to Mecca, took up residence there, and remained until he died in that city.”
Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr recounted: “I heard Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb say, ‘Whenever part of an isnād slips my mind, I am almost taken ill over it.’”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “Abū Khaythama and I went to Shuʿayb while he was staying in the quarter of Abū Jaʿfar with some of his relatives. I told Abū Khaythama, ‘Ask him.’ He approached and posed a question, but Shuʿayb noticed his long sleeve and exclaimed, ‘Can someone who writes hadith wear a sleeve that long? Boy, bring the knife!’ At that we rose and he did not narrate anything to us.”
Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣūfī said: “I heard Sarī al-Saqaṭī…"