Isḥāq, ʿAbbād ibn Isḥāq, Ibn Jurayj, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Akhnas, ʿAlī ibn Suwayd ibn Manjūf, ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥafṣah, Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah, Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, Ḥajjāj al-Ṣawwāf, Ḥātim ibn Abī Ṣaghīrah, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Sufyān, Shuʿbah, Ibn Abī Dhīb, Mālik, and a large number of others.
He even narrated from scholars of a lower tier such as Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah and the like, and he himself was counted among the leading traditionists.
Those who transmitted ḥadith from him include: ʿAlī, Aḥmad, Isḥāq, Ibn Numayr, Bundār, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Ribāṭī, Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī, Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Ṣāʿiqah, Abū Bakr al-Sāghānī, Abū Qilābah al-Raqāshī, Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Narsī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, Bishr ibn Mūsā, and many others besides.
Al-Kudaymī said, “I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī say, ‘I examined more than one hundred thousand ḥadiths narrated by Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah and copied out ten thousand of them.’ (1)
Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said, “Rawḥ was one of those who would assume the heavy communal liabilities (2); he was noble, gracious, possessed an extraordinarily large collection of ḥadith, and was utterly truthful. I heard ʿAlī say, ‘Among the traditionists are men who have never ceased pursuing ḥadith, never being distracted from it; they grew up…’"}