and Kathīr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Aylī, al-Munkadir ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Yazīd ibn al-Miqdām (1) ibn Shurayḥ, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iskandarānī, al-Mughīrah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥizāmī, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Fiṭrī, Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmmār al-Duhnī, and many others.
He also narrated from a later tier—Ghundar, Wakīʿ, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Ibn Wahb and their peers—and then from Ḥajjāj al-Aʿwar and Ibn Abī Fudayk.
Narrating from him were al-Humaydī, Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥarrānī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—who transmitted from him copiously—Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, and a group who died before he did.
Al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, and al-Tirmidhī likewise included many of his narrations in their books.
Ibn Mājah transmitted his reports through Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī and through Ibn Abī Shaybah.
Al-Tirmidhī also narrated from him via an unnamed transmitter,
and al-Nasāʾī through Zakariyyā al-Khayyāṭ.
Others who related from him include Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Aḥmad ibn Sayyār, ʿAbbās al-ʿAnbarī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Jaʿfar al-Faryābī, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sawwār, Isḥāq ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Isfarāʾīnī the jurist, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bashshār al-Nasāʾī, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bustī the judge, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr al-Bushtī—spelled with the dotted letter—of Nīshāpūr, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Balkhī, and his son: ʿAbd Allah ibn