ʿAmmār in Damascus; and from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh and his contemporaries in Khurasan; from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and his cohort in Baghdad; from Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd in Balkh; from Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ and many others in Egypt; and from Ibrāhīm ibn Bashshār al-Ramādī, Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Farrāʾ, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā, Khalaf ibn Hishām, Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, Sahl ibn Bakkār, Shādh ibn Fayyiāḍ, Abū Maʿmar ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Muqʿad, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Mubārak al-ʿAishī, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Muṭahhir, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Najdah, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, ʿAmr ibn ʿAwn, ʿAmr ibn Marzūq, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Dūlābī, Muḥammad ibn al-Minhāl al-Ḍarīr, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-ʿAbdī, Musaddad ibn Musarhad, Muʿādh ibn Asad, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, and many others besides them.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿĪsā in his Jāmiʿ; al-Nasāʾī—so it is said; Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥamdān al-ʿĀqūlī (1); Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ushnānī al-Baghdādī, a resident of al-Raḥbah and the transmitter of the Sunan from him (2); Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ashʿarī al-Iṣbahānī; Abū Bakr al-Najjād; Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, another transmitter of the Sunan; Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd ibn Sulaym; Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, who conveyed the Sunan with some gaps; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khallāl the jurist; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn al-Harawī; Aḥmad ibn al-Muʿallā al-Dimashqī; Isḥāq ibn Mūsā al-Ramlī the bookseller (3); Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār; Ḥarb ibn Ismāʿīl al-Karmānī; al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāḥib al-Shāshī; and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dhāriʿ,