Those who transmitted from him include Muslim, Abu Dawud, Baqi ibn Makhlad, Abu Zurʿah, Abu Hatim, Ibrahim al-Harbi, Musa ibn Harun, Abu Yaʿla al-Mawsili, Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbar al-Sufi, Muhammad ibn al-Mujaddar, Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi, Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Sarraj, and many others.

He was declared reliable by Yahya ibn Maʿin and others, and al-Daraqutni said of him, “Trustworthy, distinguished.”

I (the author) add: al-Bukhari in his Sahih and al-Nasa’i both reported—through an unnamed intermediary—from him.

Ahmad ibn Marwan relates in al-Mujalasah: Ibrahim al-Harbi told us, Dawud ibn Rushayd told us, saying:

“I rose one night to pray, but the cold overcame me because I had so little clothing. Sleep then overtook me, and I seemed to hear a voice saying, ‘O Dawud, We have made them sleep and kept you standing—yet do you weep before Us?’”

Al-Harbi commented, “I think Dawud never slept afterward—meaning, he never again abandoned the night vigil.”

He also said, “I heard Dawud quote the sages of India as saying:
‘No victory comes with oppression; no health with gluttony; no praise with arrogance; no friendship with deceit (1); no honor with bad manners; no righteousness with stinginess; no affection with mockery; no sound judgment with ignorance; no excuse with obstinate persistence; no peaceful heart with backbiting; no rest with envy; no eminence with revenge; no leadership with self-importance and vanity; no correctness with abandoning consultation; and no stable sovereignty with negligence.’

He died on the seventh of Shaʿban in the year 239 AH, and he was from the descendants of