Badr ibn ʿUthmān, Ḥabīb ibn Jurayy, al-Ḥakam ibn Muʿādh, Khālid ibn Ṭahmān, Saʿd ibn Aws, ʿIṣām ibn Qudāmah, al-Masʿūdī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Ṣufayrāʾ, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Saʿīd ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭāʾī, ʿUbaydah ibn Abī Rāʾiṭah, Abū Ḥanīfah, Ibn Abī Laylā, Shaybān the Grammarian, Muḥammad ibn Qays al-Asadī, Salamah ibn Nubayṭ, Yaʿlā ibn al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāribī, and many others (1).
He was counted among the foremost imams of this discipline and among its most reliable authorities.
Al-Bukhārī transmitted a great deal from him—he was one of al-Bukhārī’s senior teachers—and both he and the other compilers related a hadith through an intermediary from him.
Those who narrated from him include: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Isḥāq, Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Khaythamah, the two sons of Abū Shaybah, al-Dhuhlī, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī and al-Dimashqī, Muḥammad ibn Sanjar, Abū Ḥātim, Ibn al-Furāt, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, Ismāʿīl ibn Sammuyah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Shākir, Aḥmad ibn Mahdī al-Iṣbahānī, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, Bishr ibn Mūsā, Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarbī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Baghandī, ʿUmayr ibn Mirdās, Aḥmad ibn al-Haytham ibn Khālid al-Bazzāz, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbduwayh al-Baghdādī—the teacher of al-Ṭabarānī—Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ṭabbāʿ, Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Wazzān, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, al-Ḥārith ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, and Fuḍayl ibn Muḥammad al-Malāṭī (2).