He transmitted from Ādam ibn ʿAlī, Simāk ibn Ḥarb, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, and others.
Those who reported from him include his two brothers, Yaʿlā and Ibrāhīm, as well as Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, Ziyād ibn Ayyūb, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, and many more.
He was regarded as trustworthy. Abū Ḥātim said, “His standing is that of truthfulness.”
I (the author) add: He died in 185 AH.
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As for ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd al-Baṣrī al-Khazzāz, the vendor of head-coverings, Abū Ḥafṣ—he later settled in Mecca. He narrated from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, and was in turn narrated from by Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ, Abū Bakr al-Ḥumaydī, and others. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī declared him weak. I mention him only for the sake of clarification.
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Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah al-Wādiʿī (ʿ)—the ḥāfiẓ, the leading authority, the proof; Abū Saʿīd al-Hamdānī,