He narrated from Ibn ʿAwn, Ayman ibn Nābil, ʿAbbād ibn Rāshid, and Sufyān al-Thawrī.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Dāwūd al-Burullusī, Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Ghallābī, ʿAbbād ibn ʿAlī al-Baṣrī, Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, and others.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim said: Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Rāzī narrated to us, saying: “Yahyā ibn Maʿīn was asked about Bakkār al-Sīrīnī, and he replied, ‘I have written from him; there is nothing wrong with him.’” ⦗1⦘
Abū Ḥātim said, “His ḥadith are inconsistent; the heart finds no reassurance in them.” ⦗2⦘
Abū Zurʿah said, “His narrations are of no worth.” ⦗3⦘
I say: He died in 224 AH.
Al-Bukhārī said, “He is subject to criticism.” ⦗4⦘
Ibn Ḥibbān stated, “He reports from Ibn ʿAwn and al-ʿUmari reversals that no one corroborates; I do not approve of using his solitary reports as proof.”
Among those who relayed his material to us was Abū Khalīfah. ⦗5⦘
I add: He was the last person to narrate from him before his death.
Al-ʿUqaylī ⦗6⦘ said: “Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb and Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us, saying:”