Among those who narrated from him were: Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Duḥaym, Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā, Kathīr ibn ʿUbayd, Muḥammad ibn Hāshim al-Baʿlabakkī, Maḥmūd ibn Khālid al-Sulamī, Abū ʿUtbah al-Ḥijāzī, and many others besides them.
Duḥaym declared him trustworthy.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “I see no problem with him; he was an intelligent man.” (1)
Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī remarked: “He learned the Qurʾānic reading by direct presentation from Yaḥyā al-Dhimārī, and he used to issue legal verdicts in the study circle of al-Awzāʿī.”
Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā stated that he died in 199 AH. (2)
Hishām ibn ʿAmmār put his death in 198 AH, while Duḥaym said it was in 200 AH.
Ibn ʿAsākir related: “He was a client of Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, and he owned a house near al-Shallāḥah at Bāb Tūmā.”
Ibn al-Mubārak—despite his seniority—narrated from him, and al-Rabīʿ ibn Thaʿlab recited to him.
Duḥaym said: “I heard him say, ‘I was born in 116 AH.’”
The ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Azdī was mistaken when he spelled his grandfather’s name Shābūr with a sīn.
Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī recounted: “Al-Walīd ibn Muslim was consulted for a legal opinion while Ibn Shābūr was present, so he said, ‘Ask Abū ʿAbd Allāh.’”
Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh said: “I heard al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAṭṭār in Antioch …”