He narrated hadith in Baghdad and elsewhere from Shuʿbah, Zāʾidah, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī, Isrāʾīl, Zuhayr, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, ʿĪsā ibn Abī Ḥarb, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Muḥammad ibn Saʿd al-ʿAwfī, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, ʿAlī ibn Sahl, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥārith al-Baghdādī, his grandson ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr, and many others besides them.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī deemed him reliable.
Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā said: “He died in 208 AH.” Ibn Qāniʿ said: “In 209.” ⦗1⦘
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad the judge related to us in person; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam informed us; Ibn Ṭalāb informed us; Ibn Jumayʿ informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Idrīs al-Qāfulānī ⦗2⦘ reported to us in Baghdad; ʿĪsā ibn Abī Ḥarb narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr narrated to us; Sufyān narrated from Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Abū ʿUthmān, from Usāmah ibn Zayd:
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Do not, after my departure, revert to unbelief, striking one another’s necks.”
All the transmitters of this report are trustworthy. It is a lone‐chain narration that the compilers of the Six Books did not include. ⦗3⦘