al-Khathʿamī;
ʿAwn ibn Abī Juḥayfah; al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Khālid; al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm; ʿAyyāsh al-ʿĀmirī; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; ʿĪsā ibn Abī ʿAzzah; and ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā al-Ḥarashī;
Ghālib Abū al-Hudhail; and Ghaylān ibn Jāmiʿ;
Furāt al-Qazzāz; Firās ibn Yaḥyā; Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān; Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq; and Fiṭr ibn Khalīfah;
Qābūs ibn Abī Ẓibyān; Abū Hāshim al-Qāsim ibn Kathīr; Qays ibn Muslim—one of the earliest among them—; and Qays ibn Wahb;
Kulayb ibn Wāʾil;
Layth ibn Abī Sulaym;
Muḥārib ibn Dithār; Ibn Isḥāq; Muḥammad ibn Abī Ayyūb al-Thaqafī; Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ḥazm; Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥafṣah; Muḥammad ibn Rāshid al-Makḥūlī; Muḥammad ibn al-Zubayr al-Ḥanẓalī; Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṭāʾifī; Muḥammad ibn Ṭāriq al-Makkī; Ibn Abī Dhīb; Ibn Abī Laylā; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the client of the family of Ṭalḥah; Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān; Muḥammad ibn ʿUqbah; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah; Abū al-Zubayr Muḥammad ibn Muslim; and Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir—one of the senior figures among them—;
Mukhāriq al-Aḥmasī; al-Mukhtār ibn Fulful; Mukhawwil ibn Rāshid; and Muzāḥim ibn Zufar;
Muṣʿab ibn Muḥammad ibn Shuraḥbīl; Muṭarrif ibn Ṭarīf;
Muʿāwiyah ibn Isḥāq ibn Ṭalḥah; Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ; Maʿbad ibn Khālid; Maʿmar ibn Rāshid; Mughīrah ibn Miqsam; Mughīrah ibn al-Nuʿmān; and al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ;
Manṣūr ibn Ḥayyān; Manṣūr ibn Ṣafiyyah; and Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir;
Mūsā ibn Abī ʿĀʾishah; Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah; Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah; Maysarah ibn Ḥabīb; Maysarah al-Ashjaʿī; and Abū Ḥamzah Maymūn al-Aʿwar;
Nusayr ibn Dhuʿlūq; Nahshal ibn Mujammiʿ; and Nūḥ ibn Abī Bilāl;
Hārūn ibn ʿAntarah; Hishām ibn Isḥāq; Hishām ibn Ḥassān; Hishām ibn ʿĀʾidh; Hishām ibn ʿUrwah; and Hishām ibn Abī Yaʿlā;
Wāṣil al-Aḥdab; Wabr ibn Abī Dulaylah; Warqāʾ ibn Iyās; and al-Walīd ibn Qays al-Sakūnī;
and Yaḥyā ibn Abī Isḥāq.