Saʿd, Mālik ibn Anas, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, Ibn Abī al-Mawāl, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Sulaymān ibn Mūsā al-Zuhrī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Makhramī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn Sabrah, Muḥammad ibn Rāshid al-Makḥūlī, Muʿāwiyah ibn Sallām, Wuhayb ibn Khālid, Manṣūr ibn Abī al-Aswad, Muḥammad ibn Muhājir, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, Quraysh ibn Ḥayyān, Mujammaʿ ibn Yaʿqūb, Hushaym, and a number of others.
He was counted among the righteous scholars.
Those who transmitted from him include: Muḥammad ibn Wazīr al-Dimashqī; Imām al-Shāfiʿī—who predeceased him; Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ; Jaʿfar ibn Musāfir; Duḥaym; Muḥammad ibn Sahl ibn ʿAskar; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Barqī; Muḥammad ibn Miskīn al-Yamāmī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dārimī; al-Rabīʿ al-Murādī; Baḥr ibn Naṣr; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā; others; and his own son, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad related, on the authority of his father: “Trustworthy, a righteous man.”
Al-Athram reported from Aḥmad: “He was trustworthy, a hadith scholar.” (1)
Al-ʿIjlī said: “He was trustworthy, reliable, and knowledgeable in hadith.” (2)
Al-Nasāʾī said: “Trustworthy.” (3)
Abū Ḥātim said: “Sound in hadith.” (4)