He heard from: Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā; ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Wahb; Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb al-Ḍubāʿī; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā ibn Asad al-Marwazī; Saʿd ibn Masʿūd al-Marwazī; Saʿdān ibn Naṣr; ʿUmar ibn Shabbah; ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī; ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb; ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Abī Farwah al-Naṣībī—a close disciple of Ibn ʿUyaynah; ʿAṭiyyah ibn Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd; Abū Thawr ʿAmr ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAmr al-Shaʿbānī—a disciple of Ibn Wahb; Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Bint Maṭar; Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī; Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Munādī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Naysābūrī; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Aḥmasī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn al-Iskandarānī; Mūsā ibn Naṣr al-Rāzī; and Abū Salamah al-Musallam ibn (1) Muḥammad ibn al-Musallam ibn ʿAffān al-Ṣanʿānī, the jurist, who in turn related to him from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dhīmārī and Mawhib ibn Yazīd ibn Mawhib al-Ramlī.
He also said: “I was told by Ibn Wahb, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Rajāʾ al-Maṣṣīṣī, by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī, by Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, by Aḥmad ibn Shaybān al-Ramlī, and by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Thaqafī, all on the authority of al-Walīd ibn Muslim.”
Among those from whom he received as well are: Akhtal ibn al-Ḥakam—from Baqiyyah; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād al-Arsūfī—from Ḍamrah; Aḥmad ibn Mulāʿib; Aḥmad ibn al-Jabbār al-ʿAṭāridī; Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Qāsim Rasūl Nafsihi, one of Ibn ʿUyaynah’s students; Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī; al-Rabīʿ al-Murādī; Bishr ibn Maṭar; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Zaʿfarānī, and many others.
So dedicated was he to collecting ḥadith that he would even transmit from figures such as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khirāsh, and ʿAbdān.
Those who transmitted from him include: Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī, the ḥāfiẓ, and Abū ʿAlī