ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hamdānī, then al-Shaʿbī, originally from Kūfa and later from Basra, better known as al-Khuraibī because he settled in the Khuraiba quarter of Basra.
He reported hadith from: Salamah ibn Nubayṭ, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, al-Aʿmash, ʿUmar ibn Dharr, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Thawr ibn Yazīd, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Ṣufayrāʾ, Bukayr ibn ʿĀmir, Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Khālid ibn Ṭahmān, Ṭalḥah ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān, Ibn Abī Laylā, Umm Dāwūd al-Wābishiyyah, Mustaqīm ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, al-Awzāʿī, Ibn Jurayj, al-Thawrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ, Isrāʾīl, Misʿar, and many others.
He was one of the scholars who devoted themselves to this discipline and travelled widely in its pursuit.
Among those who narrated from him were: al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣāliḥ—his own teacher—Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAmrū ibn ʿĀṣim, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, al-Fallās, Bundār, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Dirhamī, Musaddad, Naṣr ibn ʿAlī and his son ʿAlī ibn Naṣr, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, al-Kudaymī, al-Faḍl ibn Sahl, and a large number of others.
He gave up public transmission a few years before his death.
Ibn Saʿd said: “He was trustworthy, devout, and ascetic.” (1)