al-Shikhkhīr, Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāridī, Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah, Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, Qatādah, al-Ḍaḥḥāk, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, Ibn Mahdī, Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh, Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith, Ḥaramī ibn ʿUmārah, Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī, Abū ʿĀṣim, Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Fāris, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, al-Anṣārī, Abū Nuʿaym, and many others. Among the earlier generation, Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj also transmitted from him.
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said, “He has about one hundred hadiths.” He also related, “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd mention him and say, ‘In our estimation Qurrah was among the most reliable of our teachers.’”
ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad reported: “I asked my father about Qurrah and ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr, and he replied, ‘Each of them is trustworthy.’” Isḥāq al-Kawsaj transmitted from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn that he said, “Reliable.”
Ibn Abī Ḥātim stated: “I asked my father about Qurrah and Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, and he said, ‘I prefer Qurrah; to me he is firmly reliable.’” Abū Masʿūd al-Rāzī was asked, “Is Qurrah or Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim more reliable in your view?” He answered, “Qurrah is the more reliable.”
Abū ʿUbayd said, “I heard Abū Dāwūd mention Qurrah ibn Khālid and speak highly of him.” Al-Nasāʾī likewise judged him “reliable.”
It is said that Qurrah died in 154 AH.
Our teacher Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Tāj al-Umānā informed us; he said that ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Harawī informed us; he said that Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir informed us; he said that Abū Yaʿlā Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣābūnī informed us; he said that Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī narrated to us; he said that Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Bajalī narrated to us; he said that Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; he said that Qurrah ibn Khālid narrated to us; he said that Muḥammad narrated to us, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Had ten of the Jews believed in me, there would not remain upon—”