Khalīfah al-Aʿshā Abū Yūsuf, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, ʿAṭāʾ ibn ʿUrwah, ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān al-Juʿfī, ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid, ʿAnbasah ibn Saʿīd, ʿAnbasah ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, ʿĀbid ibn Ḥabīb, ʿAbāyah ibn ʿUmar, ʿIkrimah ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿUqayl ibn Khālid, ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah, ʿAdiyy ibn al-Faḍl, ʿArʿarah ibn al-Birind, ʿUbays ibn Maymūn, ʿAlī ibn Ḥayy, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥajabī, ʿAmmār ibn Ruzayq, ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Sulaymān al-Zarrād, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir, ʿImrān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿAwfī, ʿAmmār ibn Sayf, ʿUthmān ibn Zāʾidah, Ghālib ibn Fāʾid, al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā, al-Faḍl ibn Khālid Abū Muʿādh the grammarian, Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān, Fulayḥ ibn Muslim al-Ḥajabī, Faraj ibn Faḍālah, Fazārah ibn Jarīr, al-Qāsim ibn Ghuṣn, al-Qāsim ibn Maʿn, al-Qāsim ibn Bahrām, al-Qāsim ibn Ismāʿīl Abū al-ʿAtāhiyah, al-Qāsim ibn Yaḥyā, Quṭbah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Quṭbah ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Qurrān ibn Tammām, Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, Kathīr ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Kathīr, Kathīr ibn Hishām, Kinānah ibn Jabalah, Umm Kulthūm bint ʿUthmān ibn Muṣʿab, Lawdhān ibn Sulaymān, al-Layth, Mālik, Mālik ibn Suʿayr, Maslamah ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, Maslamah ibn Qaʿnab, Maslamah ibn ʿAlī, Mubārak ibn Faḍālah, Mubārak ibn Mujāhid al-Khurasānī, Mufaḍḍal ibn Ṣāliḥ Abū Jamīlah, Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah, Mughīrah ibn Muṭarrif, Mughīrah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Mūsā ibn Yaʿqūb al-Zamʿī, Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, Maʿmar, Muḥāḍir ibn al-Muwarraʿ, Muʿāfā ibn ʿImrān—whom he did not meet—, Mahdī ibn Maymūn al-Miʿwalī, al-Musayyib ibn Sharīk, Muslim al-Zanjī, Muṣʿab ibn al-Miqdām, Muṣʿab ibn Thābit, and Muṣʿab ibn Salām.