ʿUqbah ibn Ḥurayth, ʿAlī ibn Judʿān, ʿAlī ibn Nufayl al-Ḥarrānī, ʿUmārah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Tuʿmah, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, ʿAmr ibn Murrah, ʿAmr ibn Muslim al-Laythī, Ghaylān ibn Jarīr, al-Qāsim ibn ʿĀṣim and his son Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd, Qatādah, Muḥammad ibn Ṣafwān, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Labībah, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAṭāʾ, al-Zuhrī, Ibn al-Munkadir, Maʿbad ibn Hurmuz, Maʿmar ibn Abī Ḥabībah, Mūsā ibn Wardān, Maysarah al-Ashjaʿī, Maymūn ibn Mihrān, Abū Suhayl Nāfiʿ ibn Mālik, Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ al-Sindī—who is cited by al-Tirmidhī—Hāshim ibn Hāshim al-Waqāṣī, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Yazīd ibn Qusayṭ, Yazīd ibn Nuʿaym ibn Hazzāl, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ashajj, Yūnus ibn Sayf, Abū Jaʿfar al-Khaṭmī (1), and Abū Qurrah al-Asadī. (Names taken from al-Tahdhīb).
Those who narrated from him include: al-Zuhrī, Qatādah, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Bukayr ibn al-Ashajj, Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān, Sharīk ibn Abī Namir, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Harmalah (2), and many others.
He excelled in both knowledge and practice.
A number of his upper-chain narrations have reached us.
Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Qarāfī informed us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kātib narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Shāfiʿī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭarāʾifī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Dāyah all said:
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Muslimah narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zuhrī narrated to us in the year 380 AH; he said: “Jaʿfar ibn….”