He narrated from his own father, Qurrah ibn Khālid, Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr, Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī al-Jawzāʾ, ʿAmr ibn Sulaym al-Bāhilī, and a number of others.
Transmitters from him included Abū Dāwūd, who cites him in the Sunan, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, his cousin Abū Ḥātim, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrāzādh, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Tammār, and several more.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is a shaykh.” (1)
Abū Zurʿah remarked, “He was not a liar, though he might occasionally be mistaken about something.” (2)
I (the author) say: he died a little after 220 AH.
124 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakan ibn al-Faḍl al-ʿAtakī *
He is the reliable ḥadith scholar Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sakan ibn al-Faḍl ibn al-Muʾtaman al-Azdī, from Basra.
He narrated from Shuʿbah, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, al-Aswad ibn Shaybān, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, al-Bukhārī in his book al-Adab, Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Dawraqī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Wāṣil al-Bukhārī, and many others.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.” (3)