- Guru-gurunya antara lain:
- Anas ibn Malik
- Abdullah
- Abu al-Thufail
- Shafiyah ibn Syaibah
- Arsal
- Abi ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Auf
- Hasan al-Basri
- Muhammad ibn Sirin
- Atha’ ibn Abi Rabah
- Uqbah ibn ‘Abd al-Ghaffar
- Murid-muridnya antara lain:
- Ayyub al-Sahtiyani
- Sulaiman al-Tamimi
- Jarir ibn Hazim
- Syu’bah
- Yazid ibn Ibrahim al-Tastari
- Yunus al-Askafi
- Hamam ibn Yahya
- Amru ibn al-Harits
- Umar ibn Ibrahim
- Al-Laits ibn Sa’ad
- Abu ‘Awanah