al-Sakūnī, Hāshim ibn ʿAmr Shaqran, Abū Mushir, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh, and a large company of scholars in Iraq and greater Syria.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, al-Nasāʾī in his Musnad of ʿAlī, Abū Zurʿah of Damascus, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Jawṣā, Makḥūl al-Bayrūtī, Abū ʿArūbah, Abū Bishr al-Dulābī, ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Salāmah, Khaythamah al-Uṭrābulusī, his grandson Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and many others.

Among those who heard a hadith from him were Imām Aḥmad—this is the single report conveyed by Ḥammām—and Ibn Abī Naṣr. They both said:

“Khaythamah narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf narrated to us; my father narrated to us; Shuqayr, the freedman of al-ʿAbbās, narrated to us: I heard al-Haddār—who was one of the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—say to al-ʿAbbās ibn Walīd, when he noticed his extravagance in semolina bread and other foods:

‘I have seen the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he never ate his fill of wheat bread until he departed this world.’ (1)”

ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Saʿīd, the judge, said: “I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf say:

‘I was a youngster playing ball in the church. The ball rolled inside and came to rest near al-Muʿāfā ibn ʿImrān al-Ḥimṣī. I went in to retrieve it, and he asked, “Whose son are you?” I replied, “The son of ʿAwf ibn Sufyān.” He said, “Your father was indeed one of our brethren,” and he…’