ʿUbayd al-Ḍubaʿī; Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd al-Thātī al-Miṣrī, the judge—al-Thāt, spelled with a dotted thāʾ followed by a tāʾ, was a clan of Ḥimyar; Ḥarmalah ibn ʿImrān al-Miṣrī; Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl; Ḥanẓalah al-Sadūsī; al-Aʿmash; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Malādh al-Ashʿarī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sarrāj; ʿAdī ibn ʿAdī al-Kindī; Ghaylān ibn Jarīr; Qatādah; Qays ibn Saʿd; Kulthūm ibn Jabr; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Yaʿqūb; Manṣūr ibn Zādhān; al-Nuʿmān ibn Rāshid; Yazīd ibn Rūmān; Yaʿlā ibn Ḥakīm; Yūnus ibn Yazīd; a number of his contemporaries; and Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-Miṣrī—who was younger than he.
It was also said that he narrated from Abū al-Ṭufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthila, yet what is reliably attested is only that he witnessed his funeral in Mecca.
I have seen more than one scholar count Jarīr among the junior Successors.
ʿAlī told us that he had heard from Abū al-Ṭufayl, the last of the Companions; Jarīr was the last person to have met Abū al-Ṭufayl, and he was a repository of knowledge.
Those who transmitted from him include his son, the ḥāfiẓ Wahb ibn Jarīr; Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī; al-Aʿmash; Hishām ibn Ḥassān; Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb—these five being among his own teachers—together with al-Thawrī, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, and a host of his peers.
It is also said that Ibn ʿAwn reported from him.
Among the later transmitters from him were Ibn Wahb, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Ibn al-Mubārak, Ibn Mahdī, Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad ibn ʿArʿarah, ʿĀrim Abū al-Nuʿmān, Abū ʿĀṣim, Abū Salamah al-Minqarī, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Shaybān, Hudbah, Abū al-Naṣr al-Tammār, and many others besides.
Abū Nūḥ Qurād said: Shuʿbah told me, “Make sure you go to Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim and hear from him.”
Mahmūd ibn Ghaylān narrated from Wahb who said: “Shuʿbah used to visit my father and ask about al-Aʿmash’s ḥadiths. Whenever my father narrated them, Shuʿbah would say, ‘Exactly—by Allah—I heard them in this very form from al-Aʿmash.’”
Ibn al-Madīnī said: I asked Yaḥyā, “Which of the two is preferable to you, Abū al-Ashhab or Jarīr ibn …”