and Ibrāhīm ibn Masrūr, the companion of Luwayn in Aleppo; Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zuhayr, the ḥāfiẓ of Tustar; Aḥmad ibn Hishām ibn ʿAmmār; Muḥammad ibn al-Fayḍ; Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; Muḥammad ibn Khuraym in Damascus; Muḥammad ibn al-Muʿāfā in Ṣaydā; Makḥūl in Beirut; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmayr in Ramla—who related to him the reports of Hishām ibn ʿAmmār; Maʾmūn ibn Hārūn in ʿAkkā; Maḍāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī in Adana; Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Sinān together with a number of scholars in Wāsiṭ; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Rūḥ in ʿAskar Mukram; Muḥammad ibn Tammām al-Bahrānī and his contemporaries in Ḥimṣ; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaṭṭān in Raqqa; Muḥammad ibn Zabbān; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ʿAllān; Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī; and many others in Egypt, among them Dāwūd ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Rūzbah and Kahmas ibn Maʿmar, the associate of Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ.
He likewise learned from Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Maʿshar in Harran, and ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq in Ahwāz narrated to him on the authority of Hudbah ibn Khālid. From the mass of material he heard, he selected choice and singular narrations, compiled a Musnad for Imām Abū Ḥanīfah, and transmitted a number of sizeable works.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah the ḥāfiẓ; Abū al-Shaykh ibn Ḥayyān—both older than he; Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh; Ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Dhakwānī; Abū Saʿīd al-Naqqāsh; Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ; Ḥamzah ibn Yūsuf al-Sahmī; Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣawwāf; the imām Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Shahrayār; Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Ṭabāṭabā al-ʿAlawī; Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Hāshimī, the naqīb; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Baqqāl; Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Burjī the tutor; Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Baṭṭah; Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Māshādhah al-Maqaddir; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Jawharī; Abū Zayd Muḥammad ibn Salāmah; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Ṣāʾigh; Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Thaqafī; and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn