—peace and blessings be upon him—and he was the client (mawlā) of Qays ibn Makhramah ibn al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Manāf (may Allah be pleased with him).
Ibn Isḥāq was born in the year 80 AH.
He met Anas ibn Mālik in Medina, as well as Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib.
He reported hadith from his father and from his paternal uncle, Mūsā ibn Yasār; from Abān ibn ʿUthmān—according to what is said—and from Bushayr ibn Yasār, Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind, Saʿīd al-Maqburī, Abū Sufyān Ṭalḥah ibn Nāfiʿ, ʿAbbās ibn Sahl ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hurmuz al-Aʿraj, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir, Makḥūl al-Hudhalī, Nāfiʿ al-ʿUmarī, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—if the chain is sound—Fāṭimah bint al-Mundhir ibn al-Zubayr, Maʿbad ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik, al-Zuhrī, al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad—as it is said—ʿIkrimah ibn Khālid al-Makhzūmī, Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, Saʿīd ibn ʿUbayd ibn al-Sabbāq, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAmr ibn Qatādah, Ṣadaqah ibn Yasār, al-Ṣalt ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nawfal ibn al-Ḥārith al-Hāshimī, ʿUbādah ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿUbādah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ḥazm, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad ibn Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Muḥammad ibn Abī Umāmah ibn Sahl, Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Yazīd ibn Rukānah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAṭāʾ, Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabbān, Nubayh ibn Wahb, Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah, Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmmār, Muḥammad ibn al-Zubayr al-Ḥanzalī, Sulaymān ibn Suḥaym, the son of Ṭāwūs, and a great many others—
all the way down to narrating from Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, Muḥammad ibn al-Sāʾib al-Kalbī, Rawḥ ibn al-Qāsim, Shuʿbah, and a group besides them.