al-ʿAbbās al-Daghūlī, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim, and Makkī ibn ʿAbdān, along with their contemporaries in Khurasan, Iraq, and the Hijaz.

Those who transmitted from him include: ʿAbd al-Ghanī the ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Azhari, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, Ḥamzah ibn Yūsuf al-Sahmī, and a number of others.

Ḥamzah al-Sahmī ⦗1⦘ said: “Abū Zurʿah al-Kashshī compiled the chapters and the shaykhs, and he had keen understanding. He dictated to us in Basra, and later he settled near Mecca until he died there in 390 AH.”

ʿĪsā ibn Abī Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥī informed us; he said: Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī informed us; he said: Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī informed us; he said: Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥinnāʾī informed us, from Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Saʿdī, who said: ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; he said: Abū Zurʿah Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf narrated to me in Mecca—after much effort and hardship—; he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Daghūlī informed us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Mushkān narrated to us; he said: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥakīm narrated to us; he said: Sufyān narrated to us; he said: Zāʾida narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā, who said:

“We campaigned with the Prophet ﷺ in seven expeditions during which we used to eat locusts.”

This report is singular (gharīb), and the version that is soundly preserved is the narration of Sufyān ⦗2⦘ from Abū Yaʿfūr, from Ibn Abī Awfā.