Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Abī ʿArūbah, Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, Ibn al-Mubārak, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, Ibn Mahdī, Wakīʿ, Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb, Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, Bishr ibn ʿUmar, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, ʿUmar ibn Yūnus al-Yamāmī, al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad al-Jurashī, Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Abū ʿĀṣim, ʿAbd al-Razzaq, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Yamāmī, Abū Ḥudhayfah al-Nahdī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bakkār, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ, al-Ḥasan ibn Sawwār, Shadhdh ibn Fayyāḍ, ʿAmr ibn Marzūq, and many others besides.
Al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Ghassān said: “I asked a man from al-Yamāmah about ʿIkrimah, and he replied, ‘He is the son of ʿAmmār ibn ʿUqbah ibn Ḥabīb ibn Shihāb ibn Dhubāb ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Khimṣānah ibn al-Asʿad ibn Jazīmah ibn Saʿd ibn ʿIjl.’ ”
Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ related from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn that he said, “He is reliable.”
Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr narrated from Yaḥyā: “Trustworthy, there is nothing against him.”
Abū Ḥātim reported from Yaḥyā: “He was illiterate, yet he possessed a strong memory.”
ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd transmitted from Yaḥyā: “He is dearer to me than Ayyūb ibn ʿUtbah.”
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: “The ḥadiths of ʿIkrimah from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr are not sound; they are objectionable, and Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd considered them weak.”
He also said: “Yaḥyā would declare weak the narrations of the people of al-Yamāmah, such as ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār and those like him.”
Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah reported from ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī: “In the view of our colleagues, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār was reliable and firmly established.”
Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī said: “Reliable.”
Al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad relates one thousand ḥadiths on his authority.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad transmitted from his father, who said, “ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār is inconsistent…”