al-ʿAttār—whom he graded as weak—; Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr; Muḥammad b. Bakkār, the client of Banū Hāshim; Muḥammad b. Bakkār al-Baṣrī; Muḥammad b. ʿAbbād al-Makkī; Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Musayyibī; Abū Kurayb Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ; Muḥammad b. Khālid al-Ṭaḥḥān; and Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmmār al-Mawṣilī.
Likewise Nuʿaym b. al-Hayṣam; Hudbah b. Khālid; Hārūn b. Maʿrūf; Hāshim b. al-Ḥārith; al-Hudhail b. Ibrāhīm al-Jummānī; Wahb b. Baqiyyah; Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn; Yaḥyā b. Ayyūb al-Maqābirī; Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī, and many others besides them who are listed in his Muʿjam.
Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī said: Hibatullāh al-Abarqūhī informed us—reporting from someone who mentioned him—that the father of Abū ʿAbd Allāh b. Mandah travelled to meet Abū Yaʿlā and said, “I have come to you because all the scholars of our age concur on your trustworthiness and precision.”
Al-Sulamī relates: I asked al-Dāraqutnī about Abū Yaʿlā, and he replied, “Trustworthy, reliable.”
Those who narrated from him include the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī in his work al-Kunā—where he said, “Aḥmad b. al-Muthannā, attributed to his grandfather, narrated to us”—and the ḥāfiẓ Abū Zakariyyā Yazīd b. Muḥammad al-Azdī; Abū Ḥātim Ḥibbān; Abū al-Fatḥ al-Azdī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad an-Naysābūrī; Ḥamzah b. Muḥammad al-Kinānī; al-Ṭabarānī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ismāʿīlī; Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAdī; Ibn al-Sunnī; Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥamdān al-Ḥīrī—and his father; Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Muqriʾ; the judge Yūsuf b. al-Qāsim al-Mayānjī; and Muḥammad b. an-Naḍr an-Nakhkhās—