He transmitted a number of mursal reports directly from the Prophet ﷺ. He also sent mursal traditions from several Companions whom he never met—among them Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, Thawbān, ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, Abū Hurayrah, Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī, Abū Jandal ibn Suhayl, Abū Hind al-Dārī, Umm Ayman, ʿĀʾishah, and others.
He further narrated from a group of the earliest Successors, though I do not think he actually met them, such as Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī, Masrūq, and Mālik ibn Yakhāmir.
Among those from whom he reported are: Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ, Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī, Anas ibn Mālik, Maḥmūd ibn al-Rabīʿ, Shuraḥbīl ibn al-Simṭ, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥayrīz, Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Umm al-Dardāʾ, Ṭāwūs, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Kathīr ibn Murrah, Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, Abū Asmāʾ al-Raḥabī, Waqāṣ ibn Rabīʿah, Kurayb, Guḍayf ibn al-Ḥārith, ʿAnbasah ibn Abī Sufyān—though it is unlikely that he met him—Abū Salām al-Aswad, Abū al-Shimāl ibn Ḍabāb, Abū Murrah al-Ṭāʾifī, Qabīṣah ibn Dhuʾayb, Qazaʿah ibn Yaḥyā, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm.
He even descended to narrate from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb and others of similar standing.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Zuhrī, Rabīʿah al-Raʾy, Zayd ibn Wāqid, Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, Ayyūb ibn Mūsā, ʿĀmir al-Aḥwal, Qays ibn Saʿd, Ibn ʿAwn, Ibn ʿAjlān, Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, Baḥīr ibn Saʿīd, Thābit ibn Thawbān, Burd ibn Sinān, Tamīm ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Thawr ibn Yazīd, Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr, Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Zubaydī, Yazīd ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Zabr, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Abū Muʿīd Ḥafṣ ibn Ghaylān, Abū ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Tamīm, ʿAbd al-Quddūs ibn Ḥabīb, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, and ʿAlī ibn Abī—