He narrated from: Shuʿbah, Israʾil, ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad ibn Zayd, Hammām, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, ʿImrān ibn Dāwar al-Qaṭṭān, Shaybān the Grammarian, Saʿīd ibn Salamah ibn Abī al-Ḥusām, Ḥarb ibn Shaddād, Jarīr ibn Ayyūb, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, al-Masʿūdī, and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhārī, Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī, Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ, Abū Bakr al-Athram, Rajāʾ ibn Murajjā, Abū Qilābah al-Raqāshī, ʿUthmān al-Dārimī, Abū Ḥātim, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muḥammad ibn al-Ashʿath—the brother of Abū Dāwūd, though Abū Dāwūd himself did not meet him—Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Ibn Wārah, Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh Durrān ⦗1⦘, Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā, and many others besides them.
ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd reported from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, who said: “He was an elder of proven truthfulness; there is nothing objectionable about him.” ⦗2⦘
Abū Ḥātim said: Abū Zurʿah was asked about him and replied, “His narrations from Israʾil are sound,” and he went on to praise him.
Abū Ḥātim also said: “He was trustworthy, acceptable.” ⦗3⦘
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us, on the authority of Abū al-Yaman al-Kindī: Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī told us, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī related to us, Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī informed us, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ narrated to us, Shaybān narrated to us, from Manṣūr, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUrfuṭah al-Sulamī, from Khidāsh Abū Salāmah, from the Prophet ﷺ who said: “I counsel a man concerning his mother; I counsel a man concerning his father; I counsel a man concerning his master…"