He was also known as al-ʿUmari and was a Medinan.
He narrated from his grandfather Ibn ʿUmar, from Saʿīd ibn Zayd, and from Ibn ʿAbbās.
His narrators included his five sons—ʿĀṣim, Wāqid, Zayd, ʿUmar, and Abū Bakr—as well as al-Aʿmash and others.
Abū Ḥātim declared him reliable, though he related only a few hadiths.
It is said that he once visited Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, who was stingy toward him and gave him nothing.
- Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbād ibn Jaʿfar al-Qurashī,
a Makhzūmī from Mecca.
He narrated from his maternal grandfather ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sāʾib al-Makhzūmī, from Abū Hurayrah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and from several others.
He was counted among the dependable scholars.
Those who transmitted from him include Ziyād ibn Saʿd, Ibn Jurayj, al-Awzāʿī, and others.
- Mūsā ibn Yasār al-Makhramī, their freedman,
a Medinan and the uncle of the author of al-Maghāzī.
He heard hadiths from Abū Hurayrah.