He transmitted ḥadith from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ; Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir; ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb; Makḥūl; Qatādah; al-Qāsim ibn Mukhaymirah; Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd al-Qaṣīr; Bilāl ibn Saʿd; al-Zuhrī; ʿAbdah ibn Abī Lubābah; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr; Abū Kathīr al-Suḥaymī of Yamāmah; Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd ibn Abī al-Muhājir; Muṭʿim ibn al-Miqdām; ʿUmayr ibn Hāniʾ al-ʿAnsī; Yūnus ibn Maysarah; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir al-Yaḥṣubī; Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥah; al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd al-Ḥaḍramī; Ḥafs ibn ʿInān; Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muḥāribī; Sulaymān ibn Ḥabīb al-Muḥāribī; Shaddād Abū ʿAmmār; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Qays; Abū al-Najāshī ʿAṭāʾ ibn Ṣuhayb; ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurasānī; ʿIkrimah ibn Khālid; ʿAlqamah ibn Marthad; Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn; Ibn al-Munkadir; Maymūn ibn Mihrān; Nāfiʿ, the freedman of Ibn ʿUmar; al-Walīd ibn Hishām, and a large company of the Successors and others besides.
His birth occurred while a number of the Companions were still alive.
Among those who narrated from him were Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī and Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr—both of whom were actually his teachers—together with Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, Yūnus ibn Yazīd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Zabr, Mālik, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Ibn al-Mubārak, Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah the judge, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, al-Muʿāfā ibn ʿImrān, Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb, Shuʿayb ibn Isḥāq, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, al-Hiql ibn Ziyād, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī, Abū al-Mughīrah al-Ḥimṣī, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Maṣṣīṣī, ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Yaḥyā al-Bāblutī, al-Walīd ibn Mazīd al-ʿUdhri, and many others.