He narrated ḥadith from Ibn Abī Dhīʾb, Mālik, Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, Abū al-Ghuṣn Thābit ibn Qays, Ubayy ibn ʿAbbās ibn Sahl al-Sāʿidī, Mūsā ibn ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ, Isḥāq ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṭalḥah, Khālid ibn Abī Bakr al-ʿUmarī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Hishām ibn Saʿd, Mūsā ibn Yaʿqūb al-Zamʿī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muʾammal, Saʿīd ibn al-Sāʾib al-Ṭāʾifī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Mawwāl, Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Ṭāʾifī, and many others besides them.
Those who transmitted from him include—according to what is said—Aḥmad, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Abū Khaythamah, Qutaybah, Hārūn al-Ḥammāl, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAdanī, ʿAlī ibn Shuʿayb al-Simsār, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿĪsā al-Bisṭāmī, Isḥāq ibn Buhlūl, Naṣr ibn ʿAlī, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Khallād, ʿAlī ibn Maymūn al-ʿAṭṭār, and a large number of others.
Al-Maymūnī reported that Aḥmad said, “I did not record anything from Maʿn.”
Isḥāq ibn Mūsā al-Anṣārī said: I heard Maʿn say, “Mālik would not answer the Iraqis on any matter of ḥadith unless I were the one to ask him about it. Every piece of ḥadith found in the Muwattaʾ I heard directly from Mālik—save what I have specifically excepted, for those I read back to him. And everything in the book that is not ḥadith I likewise presented to Mālik, except what I have specifically excepted, for in those cases I questioned him about it.” (1)
Abū Ḥātim said, “The most precise and trustworthy of Mālik’s companions is Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, and he is…"