, al-Ḥaḍramī; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī; Yaḥyā ibn Hāniʾ ibn ʿUrwah; Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād; Yazīd ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir; Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ; and Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd.
Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī; Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī; and Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Jahm.
Abū Jaʿfar al-Farrāʾ; Abū Ḥanān al-Kalbī; Abū al-Juwayriyah al-Jarmī; Abū Ḥayyān al-Taymī; Abū Khālid al-Dallānī; and Abū Rūq al-Hamdānī.
Abū al-Sawdāʾ al-Nahdī; Abū Shihāb al-Ḥannāṭ, the elder—Mūsā; Abū ʿAqīl, the client of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb; and Abū Farwah al-Hamdānī.
Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī; Abū Hārūn al-ʿAbdī; Abū Hāshim al-Rummānī; Abū Yaḥyā al-Qattāt; and Abū Yaʿfūr al-ʿAbdī.
It is said that his teachers numbered six hundred; the foremost among them transmitted to him from Abū Hurayrah, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Ibn ʿAbbās, and the like.
He completed a full khatmah of the Qur’an by direct presentation (1) before Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt (2) on four occasions.
As for those who narrated from him, they were a vast multitude. Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī claimed they exceeded twenty thousand, but this statement is refuted and inadmissible; if they reached a thousand, that would already be with difficulty. I know of no ḥāfiẓ from whom a larger number reported than Mālik, and when the unknowns and the fabricators are included they amount to one thousand four hundred.
A great many of the early scholars—both his own teachers and others—related from him, including: al-Aʿmash, Abān ibn Taghlib, Ibn ʿAjlān, Khuṣayf, Ibn Jurayj, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Abū Ḥanīfah, al-Awzāʿī, Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, Ibn Abī Dhīb, Misʿar, Shuʿbah, and Maʿmar—all of whom died before him—
as well as Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd; Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī; Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Yarbūʿī; Aḥwaṣ ibn Jawwāb; Asbaṭ ibn Muḥammad; Isḥāq al-Azraq; Ibn ʿUlayyah; Umayyah ibn Khālid; and Bishr ibn al-Sari.