ʿAmr ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Miṣrī, al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah—the Qurʾān-reciter—and others besides them.
Among those who learned the Qurʾān from him was Abū Ḥassān Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ashʿath al-ʿAnazī, and Abū ʿAmr (1) adopted his line of transmission in his Taysīr through Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Būyān.
Those who transmitted hadith from him include: Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Ibn Mājah in his Tafsīr, al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, al-Maḥāmilī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Ibn Makhlad, Qāsim al-Muṭarriz, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājah.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is ṣadūq (2).”
Ibn Makhlad said, “Abū Nashīṭ narrated to us, and he was a ḥāfiẓ.”
Al-Dāraquṭnī declared, “He is thiqah (3).”
Ibn Makhlad also recorded that he died in Shawwāl of the year 258 AH.
The ḥadith master Ibn ʿAsākir wrote: “Muḥammad ibn Hārūn ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū Jaʿfar al-Rabaʿī, the Baghdadi, al-Ḥarbī, al-Fallās, known as Abū Nashīṭ, heard from Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah,” and he proceeded to supply the rest of the entry.
Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī said: “I copied, in the handwriting of Abū Aḥmad ibn Abī Muslim the reciter—and our companion related from him—that he said: ‘I recited to Ibn Būyān, who had recited to Ibn al-Ashʿath, who had recited to Abū Nashīṭ, on the authority of Qālūn, pronouncing the mīm with sukun.’”