al-Zuhrī; Muḥammad ibn al-Muntashir; Marwān ibn Sālim al-Muqaffaʿ; Marwān al-Aṣfar; Masrūq; Muslim ibn Jundub; Muslim ibn al-Muthannā; Muslim ibn Abī Maryam; Muslim ibn Yannāq; Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd; al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanṭab; Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah; Maghrāʾ al-ʿAbdī; Mughīth ibn Sumay; Mughīth al-Ḥijāzī; al-Mughīrah ibn Salmān; Makḥūl al-Azdī; Munqid ibn Qays; Muhājir al-Shāmī; Muwarraq al-ʿIjlī; Mūsā ibn Dihqān; Mūsā ibn Ṭalḥah; Maymūn ibn Mihrān; Nābil, the owner of the cloak; Nāfiʿ, his freedman; Nusayr ibn Dhuʿlūq; Nuʿaym al-Mujmir; Numaylah Abū ʿĪsā; Wāsiʿ ibn Ḥabbān; Wabarah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; al-Walīd al-Jurashī (1); Abū Mijlaz Lāḥiq; Yuḥannas, the freedman of the family of al-Zubayr; Yaḥyā ibn Rāshid; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥāṭib; Yaḥyā ibn Waththāb (2); Yaḥyā ibn Yaʿmar; Yaḥyā al-Bakkāʾ; Yazīd ibn Abī Sumayyah; Abū al-Bazrā Yazīd ibn ʿUṭārid; Yasār, his freedman; Yūsuf ibn Māhak; Yūnus ibn Jubayr; Abū Umāmah al-Taymī; Abū al-Bakhtarī al-Ṭāʾī; Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā; Abū Bakr ibn Ḥafṣ; Abū Bakr ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Ḥathmah (3); his grandson, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh; Abū Tamīmah al-Hujaymī; Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj — whom he did not meet —; Abū Ḥayyah al-Kalbī; Abū al-Zubayr; Abū Saʿīd ibn Rāfiʿ; Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Abū Sahl; Abū al-Sawdāʾ; Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ al-Muḥāribī; Abū Shaykh al-Hunāʾī; Abū al-Ṣiddīq al-Nājī; Abū Ṭuʿmah; Abū al-ʿAbbās the Poet; Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī; Abū al-ʿAjlān al-Muḥāribī; Abū ʿUqbah; Abū Ghālib; Abū al-Faḍl; Abū al-Mukhāriq — if this is accurately transmitted —; Abū al-Munīb al-Jurashī; Abū Najīḥ al-Makkī; and Abū Nawfal ibn