It was said that he had initially been in the possession of Ḥuṣayn ibn Abī al-Ḥurr al-ʿAnbarī, who later presented him to Ibn ʿAbbās.
He narrated ḥadīth from Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿĀʾishah, Abū Hurayrah, Ibn ʿUmar, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, and ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib—this last report appears in the Sunan of al-Nasāʾī, and I suspect its chain is mursal (missing the Companion)—as well as from Ṣafwān ibn Umayyah, al-Ḥajjāj ibn ʿAmr al-Anṣārī, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Ḥamnah bint Jahsh, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, Umm ʿUmārah al-Anṣāriyyah, and several others.
Among those he also related from were Yaḥyā ibn Yaʿmar and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rāfiʿ.
Ibn al-Madīnī remarked that he heard ḥadīth directly from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Hurayrah, Abū Qatādah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, and Ibn ʿUmar.
Those who transmitted traditions from him include Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī and al-Shaʿbī—both of whom predeceased him—together with ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ Jābir ibn Zayd, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtaybah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr al-Dārī, ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jazarī, ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayyah al-Baṣrī, ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar, Qatādah, Maṭar al-Warrāq, Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, Abū Isḥāq al-Hamdānī, Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, Abū Ṣāliḥ, the client of Umm Hānī—despite his seniority—Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī, and a great many distinguished tābiʿīn, among them Ayyūb al-Sikhtiyānī, Ashʿath ibn Sawwār, Thawr ibn Zayd al-Dīlī, Thawr ibn Yazīd al-Ḥimṣī, Jābir al-Juʿfī, Abū Bishr Jaʿfar, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāʾah, al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd—the father of Lady Nafīsa—Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAbbāsī, Ḥusayn ibn Qays al-Raḥabī, Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid al-Marwazī, al-Ḥakam ibn Abān, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, Abū al-Jaḥḥāf Dāwūd ibn Abī ʿAwf, Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, al-Zubayr ibn al-Ḥurayth, Zayd Abū Usāmah al-Ḥajjām, Zayd, the client of Qays al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Saʿīd ibn Masrūq, Sufyān ibn Dīnār al-Tammār, Sufyān ibn Ziyād al-ʿUṣfurī, al-Aʿmash, Salamah ibn Wahrām, Simāk ibn Ḥarb, Ṣāliḥ ibn Rustum al-Khazzāz, Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr al-Ḥimṣī, ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, and ʿĀṣim