Hārūn, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Dīnār, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Darāwardī, and others of their generation.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and Ibn Mājah. Al-Nasāʾī also narrated—through an unnamed intermediary—from him.

Among his pupils were Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī, Baqī ibn Makhlad, Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Muṭayyin, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʿāfā aṣ-Ṣaydāwī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Hāshimī, and many others.

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said, “He was the uncontested jurist of the people of Medina.”

Ibn Abī Ḥātim relates: ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl aṣ-Ṣaydāwī told us, “A group of men came to Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī and said, ‘In Baghdad there is a man who claims that a person’s recitation of the Quran is created.’ He replied, ‘That is vile, Nabataean talk.’”

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār also said, “Abū Muṣʿab served in the security force of ʿUbaydullāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Hāshimī—al-Maʾmūn’s governor over Medina—and he later assumed the judgeship.”

He (al-Zubayr) added that Abū Zurʿah and Abū Ḥātim declared him “truthful.”

I (al-Dhahabī) say: The authors of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections relied on him.

Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah states in his History: “In 219 AH we set out for Mecca. I asked my father, ‘From whom should I write?’ He answered, ‘Do not write from Abū Muṣʿab; write from whomever else you wish.’”

I comment: I suspect he forbade him only because Abū Muṣʿab had entered the judiciary and was involved in contentious public affairs; otherwise, he is trustworthy, rarely errs, and is a man of considerable standing.

Abū Muḥammad Ibn Ḥazm said: “The last Muwaṭṭaʾ transmitted from Mālik was …”