He reported from: Abū al-Tufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah, Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaqīq, Abū Naḍrah, Ibn Buraydah, and many others besides them.

Those who narrated from him include: Ibn al-Mubārak, Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, and a large company of scholars.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “He is the leading ḥadith scholar of Basra.”

Ibn Maʿīn and a number of others deemed him “trustworthy.”

Abū Ḥātim remarked, “His retention declined shortly before his death.”

Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī said, “We do not lie to Allah: we heard from al-Jurayrī when he had already become confused.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal related, “I asked Ibn ʿUlayyah, ‘Did al-Jurayrī suffer confusion?’ He replied, ‘No; the shaykh simply grew old, and his faculties weakened.’ ”

Al-Fallās said, “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd say: I went to al-Jurayrī and heard him narrate: ‘Ibn Buraydah told us, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said, “Between every two calls to prayer there is a prayer.” ’

When I left, a man said to me, ‘It is actually from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughafal (1).’ So I returned to him and informed him, and he said, ‘[Yes,] it is from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughafal.’ ”

Ibn ʿUlayyah also transmitted from Kahmas: “We had already found fault with al-Jurayrī before the plague.”

Yazīd ibn Hārūn said, “I heard from al-Jurayrī in 142 AH,”