He transmitted hadith from: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAtāʾ, ʿUmar ibn Yūnus al-Yamāmī, Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bakr al-Sahmī, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Fāris, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Ashyab, Yaʿqūb al-Ḥaḍramī, Shabābah ibn Sawwār, Abū Mushir, and others of their generation.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Ḥātim, Ibn Sāʿid, Abū ʿAwānah, Ibn Jawṣā, Abū al-Dahdāh, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād, Abū al-Ṭayyib ibn ʿAbādilah, ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaḍāʾirī, his grandson Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Umayyah, and many others.
Al-Nasāʾī said: “He was a Baghdadi who settled in Tarsus.”
Ibn Yūnus stated: “He was intelligent and his hadiths were sound.” (1)
Abū Dāwūd said: “Reliable.”
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim remarked: “Abū Umayyah was truthful, though prone to many slips.”
Abū Bakr al-Khallāl the jurist said: “Abū Umayyah was of very high standing; he was an imam in hadith.”
Ibn Yūnus also reported that he died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of 273 AH, at Tarsus.
Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Munādī said: “News of Abū Umayyah’s death reached us in Ramadan of the year 273.” (2)