and Misʿar, Muhallab ibn Abī ʿĪsā, Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah, Maṭar al-Warrāq — and he was older than him —, Manṣūr ibn Abī al-Aswad, Mishmaʿill ibn Milḥān, the father of Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī, Mujāshiʿ ibn ʿAmr, al-Muḥabbar ibn Qaḥdham, Murajjaʾ ibn Rajāʾ, Marwān ibn Janāḥ, Muʾammal ibn Hārūn, Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍāll (1), Muʿallā ibn Hilāl, Muqātil ibn Ḥayyān, Mandal ibn ʿAlī, and Maymūn ibn Tawbah.
Nuḥ ibn Abī Maryam al-Jāmiʿ, Nuḥ ibn Darrāj, Nuḥ ibn Dhakwān, Nuḥ ibn Qays, al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl, al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmirī al-Marwazī, Naṣr ibn Ṭarīf, Naṣr ibn Qābūs, Naṣr ibn Bāb, Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʿmān, Nuʿaym ibn al-Muwarriʿ, Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ, Najīḥ al-ʿAṭṭār, Nāfiʿ the Qur’an-reciter, and Nāfiʿ ibn Yazīd.
Wakīʿ, Wuhaib, Abū ʿAwānah Waḍḍāḥ, and Wahb ibn Wahb Abū al-Bakhtarī.
Hishām ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Makhzūmī, Hishām ibn Yaḥyā, Hishām ibn Ziyād, Hishām ibn Yaḥyā al-Ghassānī, Hishām ibn Abī Khubzah, Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, Hudbah ibn al-Minhāl, and al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī.
Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī — and he died before him —, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr likewise, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd the Umayyad, Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad Abū Zukayr, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Yaḥyā ibn Dīnār Abū Hāshim al-Rummānī, Yaḥyā ibn Zakarīyā al-Ghassānī, Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym al-Ṭāʾī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sālim, Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā al-Ramlī, Yaḥyā ibn Yūnus, Yaḥyā ibn Hāshim al-Simsār the ruined one (2), Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Ghuniyyah, and Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmayr, the client of Banū Hāshim,