and Maḥmūd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Warrāq—whose poetry he transmitted—, and Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʿAdī ibn Thābit ibn Qays ibn al-Khaṭīm al-Ẓafarī, and Manṣūr ibn Abī Muzāḥim, and Mahdī ibn Ḥafṣ, and Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān al-Baṣrī, and al-Naḍr ibn Ṭāhir al-Baṣrī, and Nuʿaym ibn al-Hayṣam, and Hārūn ibn Maʿrūf, and al-Haytham ibn Khārijah, and Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb the devotee, and Yaḥyā ibn Durust al-Qurashī, and Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmānī, and Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbduwayh—the companion of Shuʿbah—, and Yaḥyā ibn Yūsuf al-Zammī (1), as well as Abū Bilāl al-Ashʿarī Mirdās, and Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ.

He also relates from a great many narrators who are unknown, and from a number of later authorities such as Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib, Abū Qilābah al-Raqāshī, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, and ʿAbbās al-Dūrī. Because he traveled only rarely, it was difficult for him to secure direct transmission; instead he would record a report with a lower isnād, taking it down from whoever was available.

His written works are extremely numerous, and among them are hidden treasures and remarkable curiosities.

Those who narrated from him include: al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah—one of his own teachers—, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Lunbānī (2), Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Salmān al-Najjād, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣafwān al-Baradhaʿī, Aḥmad ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Burayyah al-Hāshimī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shāfiʿī, ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūmārī, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaḥḥāf, Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn ʿUqda, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, Aḥmad ibn Marwān al-Dīnawarī, and ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad,