and al-Bakkāʾī, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah, ʿAlī ibn Ghurāb, Marwān ibn Shujāʿ, and others of their generation.
He travelled far and wide, amassed ḥadīths, authored works, and was granted a long life.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī and his son Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Jawzajānī (1), ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, Muḥammad ibn al-Musayyab al-Arghiyānī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, the judge al-Maḥāmilī, and many others besides.
His companion Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal also reported from him.
Ibrāhīm ibn Urmah said, “There is no one on the face of the earth more trustworthy than Ziyād ibn Ayyūb.” (2)
Abū Ḥātim said, “Reliable.” (3)
Abū Bakr al-Marwadhī related: Abū ʿAbd Allāh told us, “Write down (ḥadīths) from Ziyād, for he is the junior Shūʿbah.” (4)
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj said: I heard him say, “I was born in 166 AH, and I began the quest for ḥadīth in 181 AH.” (5)