He narrated from: al-Fallās, Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, Abū ʿUmar al-Dūrī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, and others of their rank.
Among those who transmitted from him were: Abū ʿAlī ibn Hārūn, Abū ʿUmar ibn Faḍālah, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Rabʿī, al-Mayānajī, al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Shaykh, a host of others, and Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar.
Al-Khaṭīb (1) considered him reliable, and al-Dāraqutnī said, “There is no harm in him.”
He died in 306 AH.
165 – Ibn Dhariḥ, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī *
The precise and trustworthy imam: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Dhariḥ al-Baghdādī, al-ʿUkbarī.
He heard ḥadith from Jubārah ibn al-Mughalis, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhri, Abū Thawr al-Kalbī, and others of their generation.
Devoted to ḥadith, he travelled widely in its pursuit.
Those who narrated from him include: Isḥāq al-Niʿālī, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn al-Zayyāt, Ibn Bukhayt al-Daqqāq, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and others.