, Mansūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, Zayd ibn Aslam, Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah, Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, and others of their rank.

He was counted among the very vessels of knowledge, distinguished for his truthfulness, rigorous verification, piety, gravitas, and the fine quality of his compilations.

Those who transmitted ḥadith from him include: Ayyūb, Abū Isḥāq, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār and a number of his own teachers; Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah; the two Sufyāns; Ibn al-Mubārak; Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ; Ghundar; Ibn ʿUlayyah; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā; Hishām ibn Yūsuf, the judge of Ṣanʿāʾ; Abū Sufyān Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd; Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah; Rabāḥ ibn Zayd; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Wāqidī; ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Hammām; Muḥammad ibn Kathīr (both of them from Ṣanʿāʾ); Muḥammad ibn Thawr; and many others besides these.

The last of his students to die was Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, who remained alive until the end of the year 216 AH.

Aḥmad ibn Thābit narrated—from ʿAbd al-Razzāq—from Maʿmar, who said: “While still a youth I went out to attend the funeral of al-Ḥasan, and I began seeking knowledge in the very year al-Ḥasan passed away.”

Al-Bukhārī said: Muḥammad ibn Kathīr reported—from Maʿmar—who said: “I heard from Qatādah when I was fourteen years old, and nothing I heard in those years is other than as though it were written upon my heart.”

Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad narrated to me, saying, Ibn ʿĀʾishah narrated to us, saying, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād told me:
“I asked Maʿmar, ‘How did you come to hear from Ibn Shihāb?’
He replied, ‘I was a slave belonging to a clan of Ṭāḥiyah(1). They sent me off with some cloth to sell, so I arrived in Medina and took lodging…’