and Mālik ibn Anas, Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī al-Muhājir, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah the judge, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Muḥammad ibn Muhājir, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Samāʿah, Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Murrī, and many others.
In Mecca he studied with Ibn ʿUyaynah and, through him, acquired the reading of Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nuʿaym.
He was regarded as one of the storehouses of knowledge.
He was born in 140 AH.
Among those who narrated from him were Marwān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāṭarī, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh, Duḥaym, Sulaymān ibn Bint Shuraḥbīl, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Bukhārī—though the latter transmitted only a few reports from him—Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, ʿAbbās al-Tarqafī, Abū Bakr al-Ṣaghānī (1), Abū Muḥammad al-Dāramī, Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarsūsī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf, Ibrāhīm ibn Dayzīl, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh Sammūyah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī, Hārūn ibn Mūsā al-Akhfash the Qur’an reciter, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Rawwās al-Hāshimī, and many others besides them.
Duḥaym said, “He was born in Ṣafar of the year 140 AH.” (2)
Abū Mushir said, “I met al-Awzāʿī, and I saw Ibn Jābir and sat in his company.” (3)