He narrated from: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Khaffāf, Zayd ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUbayd al-Dimashqī, Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, ʿAlī ibn Maʿbad ibn Shaddād, Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, Abū Badr al-Sakūnī, and their peers.
He traveled in pursuit of knowledge and had a discerning eye in this field.
Those who transmitted from him include: Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Wakīʿī, ʿAlī ibn Sirāj al-Miṣrī, ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd al-Rāzī, Zakarriyā Khayyāṭ al-Sunnah, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Khuzaymah, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl “the Engineer,” Abū Bishr al-Dūlābī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Tarkhumī, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bujayr, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, and many others.
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī said: “Trustworthy, a man of the Sunnah. He settled in Egypt, and his father had been governor of Tripoli in the Maghrib.” (1)
I (the author) say: His brother ʿUthmān ibn Maʿbad was one of the Qur’an reciters, but I have not learned under whom he studied.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “We wrote down some of the hadith of ʿAlī ibn Maʿbad ibn Nūḥ in Mecca while he was on pilgrimage, but we were not able to hear directly from him. That was in the year 255 AH, and he was truthful.” (2)
Abū Bakr ibn al-Jiʿābī said: “He settled in Egypt and possessed some extraordinary (narrations).” (3)
Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqat, saying: “His hadith is sound.”