He heard ḥadith from: Abū Badr Shujāʿ ibn al-Walīd, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr, Shababa ibn Sawwār, and their contemporaries.
Those who transmitted from him include: Ibn Ṣāʿid, ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk, Mukram ibn Aḥmad the judge, Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and others.
His narrations appear with a high-level chain (ʿāli) in the Ghaylāniyyāt.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said, “He was trustworthy and reliable.” (1)
Ibn Kāmil stated: “He died on the fifth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah, in the year 280 AH.”
On another occasion he said, “He passed away on the fifth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah, in the year 279.” (2)
Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Munādī said, “He died in 280 AH. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dāraquṭnī declared him reliable, and he had been born in 186 AH.”
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us (3); Zafar ibn Sālim informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī ʿUthmān—in 478 AH—reported to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Maḥāmilī told us; Abū ʿUmar al-Zāhid told us; Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Narsī told us; Yazīd ibn Hārūn told us; Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān told us; I heard Ḥabīb ibn ʿUbayd al-Raḥabī say:
“Seek knowledge, understand it well, and gain jurisprudential insight through it. Do not study it merely as an ornament, for it is likely—if your lives are prolonged—that people will come to adorn themselves…"