He heard hadith from Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs, Abū Muʿāwiya, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Muḥāribī, Muḥammad ibn Bishr, Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl, Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarāḥ, Yaḥyā ibn Yamān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb, ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār, al-Qāsim ibn Yazīd al-Jarmī, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Wahb ibn Jarīr, Shababa ibn Sawwār, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad, Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥaffarī, Anas ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Laythī, Zayd ibn Abī al-Zarqāʾ, and many others in Mosul, the Ḥijāz, Kūfa, Baghdad, Baṣra, and Wāsiṭ.
Those who narrated from him include al-Nasāʾī—who said, “He is sound”—Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, al-Maḥāmilī, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, the imām Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baladī, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Azraq, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Abū ʿAwana, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Maṭīrī, ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Mādaraʾī, Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-ʿAbbādānī, and—among the next generation (1)—Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, together with a great many others.
Abū Ḥātim said, “Reliable.” (2)
Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “Trustworthy.”
Yazīd ibn Muḥammad stated in The History of Mosul: “ʿAlī travelled with his father and heard …”