He narrated from: Anas ibn Mālik; Abu ʿUthmān al-Nahdī; another Abu ʿUthmān; Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr; Ṭāwūs; Abu Mijlaz; Yaḥyā ibn Yaʿmur; Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī; al-Ḥasan; Ṭalq ibn Ḥabīb; Barakah Abu al-Walīd; Thābit; Qatādah; Raqabah ibn Maṣqalah; Abu Naḍrah, and a host of others.
He also narrated from certain juniors, such as al-Aʿmash, Ḥusayn ibn Qays al-Raḥabī, and al-Rabīʿ ibn Anas.
He held a leading rank in both knowledge and practice.
Among those who reported from him were: Abu Isḥāq al-Sibīʿī—one of his own teachers—his son Muʿtamir, Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Ibn al-Mubārak, Hushaym, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Ibn ʿUlayyah, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Zuhayr al-Juʿfī, Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī, Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah, Ibn Fuḍayl, Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Abu Hammām Muḥammad ibn al-Zibriqān, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ḍubaʿī, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, al-Anṣārī, Abu ʿĀṣim, Hawdhah ibn Khalīfah, and many others besides.
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said, “He left roughly two hundred hadiths.”
Al-Rabīʿ ibn Yaḥyā narrated from Shuʿbah that he said, “I have never seen anyone more truthful than Sulaymān al-Taymī—may Allah have mercy on him—for whenever he related a report from the Prophet ﷺ his complexion would change.”
Abu Baḥr al-Bakrawī transmitted from Shuʿbah that he said, “The very doubt of Ibn ʿAwn and Sulaymān al-Taymī counts as certainty.”