Wakiʿ and the majority held that he passed away in the year eight and one hundred—that is, 148 AH. Abū Nuʿaym adds: “in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, when he was eighty-eight years old.”
A Listing of al-Aʿmash’s Disciples
Al-Nasāʾī said:
First tier: Sufyān, Shuʿbah, and Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān.
Second tier: Zāʾidah, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, and Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth.
Third tier: Abū Muʿāwiyah, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, and Abū ʿAwānah.
Fourth tier: Ibn al-Mubārak, Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, Quṭbah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Mufaḍḍal ibn Muhalhal, and Dāʾūd al-Tāʾī.
Fifth tier: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Wakiʿ, Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ruʾāsī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāʾūd, al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā, and Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah.
Sixth tier: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, Abū Usāmah, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr.
Seventh tier: ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd and ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān.
111 – al-Kalbī, Muḥammad ibn al-Sāʾib ibn Bishr
The erudite scholar of historical reports, Abū al-Naḍr Muḥammad ibn al-Sāʾib ibn Bishr al-Kalbī, the Qurʾān exegete.
He was also a leading authority on genealogy; however, he was Shīʿite, and his hadith is rejected.
Those who transmitted from him include his son Hishām and a number of others.