He narrated from Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Saʿīd al-Jurayrī, Sulaymān al-Taymī, Ibn ʿAwn, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Thawr ibn Yazīd, and—most often—from Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, as well as from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah and Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, from whom he also transmitted his ḥarf (Quranic reading).

Those who took his recitation were Aḥmad ibn Jubayr al-Antākī and Khalaf ibn Hishām.

Among those who reported from him are Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAmr al-Nāqid, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿfar, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, and many others besides.

Ibn Saʿd said: “He possessed a large body of hadith; he kept close to Ibn Abī ʿArūbah and was known for his companionship with him.” (1)

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “Reliable.” (2) The same verdict was given by al-Dāraqutnī and others.

It is also related that he was a righteous worshipper, much given to weeping.

Al-Bukhārī remarked: “He is not strong.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “ʿAbd al-Wahhāb would recite Saʿīd’s works to him, and ʿAbd Allāh al-Afṭas would say, ‘ʿAbd al-Wahhāb has narrated to us—chant it, chant it!’”

He added, “Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān held a favorable opinion of him.” (3)

Al-Marrūdhī relates: “I asked Abū ʿAbd Allāh, ‘Is ʿAbd al-Wahhāb reliable?’ He replied, ‘Do you know…’”