Tawus said: “I met three hundred of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who would say: ‘Everything is by divine decree.’” This view was also held by the Successors: Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, al-Qasim ibn Muhammad, Salim ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar, Sulayman ibn Yasar, Ka'b al-Ahbar, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Ali ibn al-Husayn, his son Muhammad ibn Ali, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Zayd ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar, Zayd ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn, Ja'far ibn Muhammad, Zayd ibn Aslam, Wahb ibn Munabbih, Ata, Tawus, Mujahid, Muhammad ibn Ka'b al-Qurazi, al-Hasan, Muhammad ibn Sirin, Abu al-Aliyah, Muslim ibn Yasar, Abu Qilabah, Iyas ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Qurrah, Bakr ibn Abd Allah al-Muzani, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, Abu Salih, Dawud ibn Abi Hind, Ayyub, Yunus, Ibn Awn, and Sulayman al-Taymi.
Yunus ibn Ubayd said: “I lived in Basra, and there was no Qadari there except Sisawayh, Ma'bad al-Juhani, and another accursed man among Banu Awanah.”
Ibn Awn said: “I lived among the people, and they spoke of nothing but Ali and Uthman, until an insignificant little man appeared, called Sisawayh the grocer; and he was the first to”