Among those who narrated from him were Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, and Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firabrī.

We encountered al-Firabrī’s transmission from him in an elevated chain for the ḥadīth of Moses and al-Khiḍr, where he says, “ʿAlī ibn Khushram related it to us; Ibn ʿUyaynah related it to us,” after which he cited the report. This wording, however, does not appear in every manuscript of the Ṣaḥīḥ.

Other transmitters from him include Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh al-Mālīnī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Razīn al-Bāshānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Munḏir Shakkar (1), Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Balkhī, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdūn al-Aʿmashī, and many others.

With him the highest-level chains of transmission came to an end in Transoxiana, Marw, and Herat.

Abū Rajāʾ relates: “I heard him say, ‘I have fasted eighty-eight Ramadans.’” He also recorded that the shaykh passed away in Ramadan of the year 257 AH.

166 – Aḥmad ibn Bakkār ibn Abī Maymūnah Zayd al-Umawī (al-Nasāʾī)
A client of the Umayyads, from Ḥarrān, a ḥadīth master known as Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.

He narrated from Abū Muʿāwiyah, Makhlad ibn Yazīd, Ibn Fuḍayl, Muḥammad ibn Salamah, Wakīʿ, and several others.

Transmitters from him include al-Nasāʾī, al-Bāghandī, Abū ʿArūbah, and a number of others.

Al-Nasāʾī said of him, “There is no harm in him.”