He heard from: ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubārak, ʿUbayd Allah al-Ashjaʿī, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl, and their contemporaries.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Bukhārī, Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, and others.
He was counted among the foremost hadith masters of Kūfah.
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable.” (1)
Al-Muṭayyin stated that he died in 220 AH. (2)
166 – al-Ramādī: Ibrāhīm ibn Bashshar * (D, T (3))
The imam, hadith scholar, and teacher, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Bashshar al-Jarjaraʾī, later al-Baṣrī, known as al-Ramādī, and a close companion of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah.
He narrated from Ibn ʿUyaynah, Abū Muʿāwiyah, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭarāʾifī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Rajāʾ al-Makkī, and several others.
Those who reported from him include: Abū Dāwūd in his Sunan, Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī, and Tamtam.