Abū Rāshid, Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqa, Simāk ibn Ḥarb, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, Zubayd ibn al-Ḥārith, Bayān ibn Bishr, Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, Ibrāhīm ibn Muhājir, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Zurʿa, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Sālim al-Afṭas, Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, Nusayr ibn Dhʿulūq, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, Salama ibn al-Muḥabbīq, Ashʿath ibn Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Mālik al-Jazarī, al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ, Saʿīd ibn Masrūq, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdala, ʿAlī ibn Baḏīma, Zayd ibn Jubayr, Ḥakīm ibn Jubayr, Shabīb ibn Gharqada, Mikhwal ibn Rāshid, Ibn ʿAqīl, Ibrāhīm ibn Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Bajalī, ʿAmmār al-Duhnī, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, and many others besides them.
Those who transmitted from him include Abān ibn Taghlib and Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq—both of whom had actually been his own teachers—as well as Shuʿbah, Sufyān, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Ibn al-Mubārak, Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, Abū Nuʿaym, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, and Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf al-Azraq. It is said that Isḥāq al-Azraq alone collected nine thousand hadiths from him.
Among the later transmitters from Sharik are Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and his brother ʿUthmān, Hannād ibn al-Sarī, Luwayn, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Luwayn, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmanī, ʿAbbād ibn Yaʿqūb al-Rawājinī, Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, and a multitude of others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn pronounced him trustworthy, remarking, “He is more accurate than Abū al-Aḥwaṣ.”
I say: although Abū al-Aḥwaṣ is among the narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs, neither of them brought out anything from Sharik except for a few corroborative chains cited by Muslim. Al-Bukhārī quotes him only in suspended form.