from him narrated a vast number of scholars. In his Tahdhīb our teacher Abū al-Ḥajjāj lists the following names in alphabetical order:
Ibrāhīm ibn Tahmān—the foremost scholar of Khurāsān; Abyad ibn al-Agharr ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Minqarī; Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad; Isḥāq al-Azraq; Asad ibn ʿAmr al-Bajalī; Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣayrafī; Ayyūb ibn Hāniʾ;
al-Jārūd ibn Yazīd al-Naysābūrī; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn;
al-Ḥārith ibn Nabḥān; Ḥayyān ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAnazī; al-Ḥasan ibn Ziyād al-Luʾluʾī; al-Ḥasan ibn Furāt al-Qazzāz; al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī; Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the judge; Ḥakkām ibn Salm; Abū Muṭīʿ al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAbd Allāh together with his son Ḥammād ibn Abī Ḥanīfah; Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt—one of his contemporaries—;
Khārijah ibn Muṣʿab; Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī;
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl al-Tamīmī, the jurist; Zayd ibn Ḥubbāb;
Sābiq al-Raqqī; Saʿd ibn al-Ṣalt, the judge; Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Jahm al-Qābūsī; Saʿīd ibn Salām the perfumer; Salm ibn Sālim al-Balkhī; Sulaymān ibn ʿAmr al-Nakhaʿī; Sahl ibn Muzāḥim;
Shuʿayb ibn Isḥāq; al-Ṣabbāḥ ibn Muḥārib; al-Ṣalt ibn al-Ḥajjāj;
Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl; ʿĀmir ibn al-Furāt; ʿĀʾidh ibn Ḥabīb; ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Muqriʾ; Abū Yaḥyā ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmanī; ʿAbd al-Razzāq; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Khālid—of Tirmidh; ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī; ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Abī Rawwād; ʿAbd al-Wārith al-Tannūrī; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr al-Qurashī; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā; ʿAttāb ibn Muḥammad; ʿAlī ibn Ẓabyān the judge; ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim; ʿAlī ibn Mushir the judge; ʿAmr ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAnqazī; Abū Quṭn ʿAmr ibn al-Haytham; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus; Abū Nuʿaym;
al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā; al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥakam al-ʿUranī; al-Qāsim ibn Maʿn; Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ;
Muḥammad ibn Abān al-ʿAnbarī—a Kufan—; Muḥammad ibn Bishr; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Atash; and Muḥammad