He also narrated from: ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bahram, Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ, Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān, Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif, al-Walīd ibn Abī Thawr, Sawwār ibn Muṣʿab, Ismāʿīl ibn Zakariyyā, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād, Hushaym, and many others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, al-Maʿmarī, Ḥāmid ibn Shuʿayb, Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, ʿImrān ibn Mūsā al-Sakhtiyānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Mukram, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Sarrāj, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Mūsā ibn Isḥāq, al-Haytham ibn Khalaf al-Dūrī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and many others besides them.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad said, “My father saw no objection to writing down ḥadith from him.”
ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd reported from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn: “A shaykh—there is nothing wrong with him.”
ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Manṣūr likewise quoted Yaḥyā as saying, “Trustworthy.” Al-Dāraquṭnī agreed.
Ṣāliḥ Jazara remarked: “A Baghdadi, truthful, though he relates from weak narrators.”
Ibn Abī Khaythamah said: “I heard him say, in the year 232 AH, ‘Today I am eighty-seven years old.’”
Al-Bukhārī and several others stated that he died in 238 AH. Al-Baghawī added: “in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir.”