Narrators who transmitted from him include Muslim (1), Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa’i, and Abu ʿUmar al-Duri—who was in fact one of his own teachers—together with Ibn Majah, ʿAbdan al-Ahwazi, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Saʿid, Abu ʿAwana, Ibn Abi Hatim, Ahmad al-Bardiji (2), Muhammad ibn Makhlad, al-Mahamili, Ismaʿil al-Saffar, Abu Saʿid ibn al-Aʿrabi, Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Asamm, and many others, the last of whom was Shujaʿ ibn Jaʿfar al-Ansari.
Al-Asamm related: “My father asked him, ‘To which tribe does the shaykh belong?’ He replied, ‘My grandfather was in the desert when a man met him and said, “Accept Islam.” So he embraced Islam and cut off the zunnār (the Christian girdle).’ (3)
Ibn Abi Hatim said: ‘He is thabt, truthful.’ (4)
ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Khirash said: ‘Reliable and trustworthy.’ (5)
Abu al-Hasan al-Daraqutni declared: ‘Trustworthy—indeed, beyond trustworthy.’ (6)
And Abu Muzahim al-Khaqani stated: ‘In his day Abu Bakr al-Saghani resembled Yahya ibn Maʿin.’ (7)