He narrated ḥadīths from: Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Kathīr ibn Murrah, Ḥizām ibn Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām, Busr ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, Makḥūl, and a number of others.

Transmitted from him: Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid, Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Samīn, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Sumayʿ, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, and many more.

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and other critics declared him reliable. Abū Ḥātim said, “There is nothing wrong with him.” It was alleged that he inclined to the Qadarite view, but the charge is not established.

Al-Walīd narrated from him: “I myself saw the head that is said to be the head of John (peace be upon him); it was still fresh, as though he had been slain only moments ago.”

Al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Bakkār stated that Zayd ibn Wāqid died in 138 AH.

Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid reported: “Zayd ibn Wāqid narrated to us; a man from Basra called al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ḥasan told me:
‘Indeed, I met people who, had they seen the best among you, would have said, “These folk have no share (of virtue),” and had they seen the worst among you, would have said, “Do these people not believe in the Day of Reckoning?!”’ ”

126 – Yūnus ibn Yazīd ibn Abī al-Nijād Mushkān al-Aylī * (ʿ)
The Imām, the trustworthy ḥadīth scholar, Abū Yazīd al-Aylī; he was a client of Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān of the Umayyads, the brother of Abū ʿAlī and the uncle of ʿAnbasah ibn Khālid.