, al-Tamīmī, al-Yarbuʿī, the Khurāsānī, and a long-time resident of the Sacred Precinct.
He was born in Samarqand, raised in Abiward, and set out on travels in pursuit of knowledge.
While in Kūfa he committed ḥadīth to writing from: Manṣūr, al-Aʿmash, Bayān ibn Bishr, Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Layth, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Hishām ibn Ḥassān, Ibn Abī Laylā, Mujālid, Ashʿath ibn Sawwār, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, and many others among the scholars of Kūfa and the Ḥijāz.
Those who narrated from him included: Ibn al-Mubārak, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Aṣmaʿī, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī ibn Hilāl— a shaykh from Wāsiṭ—Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, Asad al-Sunnah (1), al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī, Ibn Wahb, Musaddad, Qutayba, Bishr al-Ḥāfī, al-Sarī ibn Mughlis al-Saqaṭī, Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām, ʿUbayd Allah al-Qawārīrī, Muḥammad ibn Zunbur al-Makkī, Luwayn, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAdanī, al-Ḥumaydī, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Yazīd Mardawayh, ʿAbda ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Marwazī, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Sarī al-ʿAsqalānī, and Muḥammad ibn Qudāma.