and ʿIkrimah, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Anas ibn Sīrīn, Abū Maʿshar Ziyād ibn Kulayb, Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, Qays ibn Saʿd, Wāṣil, the client of Abū ʿUyaynah, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, Ayyūb ibn Mūsā al-Qurashī, and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣuḥayb.
He even went on to report from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ and from Mahdī ibn Maymūn—who was younger than he.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Jurayj, Ibn Abī ʿArūbah, Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, Zāʾidah, the two Ḥammāds, Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, Hushaym, Muʿtamir, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Ibn ʿUlayyah, Jarīr, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, Abū Usāmah, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Ghundar, al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl, Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Bursānī, Rawḥ, al-Aswad ibn ʿĀmir, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Fāris, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, Abū ʿĀṣim, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bakr al-Sahmī, Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm, Wahb ibn Jarīr, Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir, ʿUthmān ibn al-Haytham the muʾadhdhin, and many others.
Muḥammad ibn Sallām al-Jumaḥī said: “Hishām ibn Ḥassān was a client of the Qarādīs, of the Azd.”
Sulaymān ibn Abī Shaykh remarked, “He was nicknamed Qardūs solely because of his good looks.”
Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās said, “Hishām was a client of the ʿAtak; he settled in Darb al-Qarādīs, and so was ascribed to them.”
Ḥammād narrated from Hishām that he said, “Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn gave me the kunya Abū ʿAbd Allāh, though I had no child.”
Ḥammād also narrated—from Saʿīd ibn Abī Ṣadaqah—that Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn said, “Hishām is one of us, the people of the household.”
Ḥammād said, “Ayyūb used to say, ‘Ask Hishām for me about such-and-such a report.’”
Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah stated, “I never saw—indeed, there was no one—who retained more from Muḥammad than Hishām.”
Ibrāhīm ibn Mahdī said, “I heard Ḥammād ibn Zayd say, ‘Ayyūb and Hishām informed us—and Hishām alone would have sufficed.’”
Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād narrated, “I heard Sufyān say, ‘Hishām undertook a momentous act by narrating from—’”}