He transmitted reports from: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, Bayān ibn Bishr, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, Mughīra ibn Miqsam, Muṭarrif ibn Ṭarīf, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyab, Thaʿlaba ibn Suhayl, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Sulaymān al-Taymī, Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muntashir, Raqaba ibn Maṣqala, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, Abū Ḥayyān al-Taymī, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Mūsā ibn Abī ʿĀʾisha, Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, Qābūs ibn Abī Ẓubyān, al-Mukhtār ibn Fulful, and many others.
His chain of transmission also reaches down to Ibn Isḥāq and Mālik, and he was regarded as one of the eminent teachers of Islam.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn al-Mubārak, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Ṭabbāʿ, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Qutayba, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shayba, Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Farrāʾ, Abū Khaythama, Isḥāq ibn Mūsā al-Khaṭmī, Ziyād ibn Ayyūb, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Adhramī (1), Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr Zunayj, Muḥammad ibn Qudāma ibn Aʿyan, Yaḥyā ibn Aktham, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, Yūsuf ibn Mūsā, ʿAmr ibn Rāfiʿ, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shayba, Muḥammad ibn Qudāma al-Ṭūsī, Muḥammad ibn Qudāma ibn Ismāʿīl al-Sulamī al-Bukhārī, and many others.
ʿĪsā ibn Sulaymān al-Warrāq recorded his full lineage on the authority of Yūsuf ibn Mūsā,