, and Ibn Saʿd, Ayyūb ibn Mūsā, Burd ibn Sinān, Bakr ibn Wāʾil, Bayān ibn Bishr, Sālim ibn Abī Ḥafṣah, Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj, Sumayy the freedman of Abū Ṣāliḥ, Ṣadaqah ibn Yasār, Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym, ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb al-Jarmī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ḥazm, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khuthaym, Muḥammad ibn Juḥādah, Muḥammad ibn al-Sāʾib ibn Barakah, Yazīd ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir of Damascus, Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, Sufyān, Shuʿbah, Ziyād ibn Saʿd, Zāʾidah ibn Qudāmah, and many others.
He alone preserved and transmitted reports from a number of the senior authorities.
Those who narrated from him include al-Aʿmash, Ibn Jurayj, and Shuʿbah—though these three were among his own teachers—together with Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥayy, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, al-Shāfiʿī, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, al-Ḥumaydī, Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Bashshār al-Ramādī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, Abū Kurayb, Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā, ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallās, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī, ʿAmr ibn Muḥammad al-Nāqid, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr al-Kawsaj, Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Bazzār, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr ibn al-Ḥakam, Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim al-Thaqafī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, Saʿdān ibn Naṣr, Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī, Bishr ibn Maṭar, al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, and Aḥmad ibn Shaybān.