He narrated from Mālik, Sharīk, Ḥammād al-Abaḥ, Abū ʿAwanah, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Tirmidhī—who later reported a narration through an intermediary—Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Karrām, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Ṣāliḥ Jazrah, Abū Yaʿlā, and many others.
Abū Ḥātim said: “Truthful.”
Ibn Ḥibbān remarked: “A man of hadith and Sunnah; he wrote and compiled works.”
I (the author) say: He died in 239 AH, in Mecca.
As for:
157 – Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Tirmidhī *
He was one of his contemporaries and served as the judge of Tirmidh.
Ibn Ḥibbān said: “He was a Jahmite who sold wine.”
Ibn Rāhwayh would weep over the audacity with which he defied Allah.
158 – ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah al-Yuḥmidī ** (s)
the shaykh, hadith scholar, musnid, and reliable authority, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Yuḥmidī ⦗1⦘, from Marw.
He narrated from Mālik ibn Anas, Saʿīd ibn Sālim al-Qaddāḥ, Ibn al-Mubārak, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā, and a number of others.