He narrated from: Ismaʿil ibn Abi Khalid, al-Aʿmash, Yazid ibn Kaysan, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar, al-ʿAwwam ibn Hawshab, Idris al-Awdi, al-Thawri, and a large number of others.
Narrators who reported from him include: Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahya ibn Maʿin, Ishaq, Ibn Numayr, the two sons of Abu Shaybah, Abu Khaythamah, Ahmad ibn al-Furat, Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rahawi, Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli, ʿAbbas al-Duri, Yaʿqub ibn Shaybah, and many more.
Ahmad and Yahya ibn Maʿin said: ʿUmar, Muhammad, and Yaʿla—the sons of ʿUbayd—are trustworthy.
Al-Daraqutni said: ʿUmar, Yaʿla, Muhammad, Idris, and Ibrahim—the sons of ʿUbayd—are all reliable (1).
Salih ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal transmitted from his father, who said, “Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd would make mistakes and would not retract them.”
Ibn Saʿd said: “Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd stayed in Baghdad for a considerable time, then returned to Kufah, where he died before Yaʿla in 204 AH.
“He was reliable, prolific in hadith, and devoted to the Sunnah and the community” (2).
Yaʿqub al-Sadusi said: “He was among those who gave precedence to ʿUthman over ʿAli, and few