Ibn ʿAbbād al-Ruʾāsī; Saʿīd ibn ʿUfayr al-Miṣrī; Saʿīd ibn Dāwūd al-Zubayrī; Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam; Abū al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Zahrānī; Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tirmidhī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ ibn Thābit al-Zubayrī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ al-Jumaḥī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Bajalī al-Ḥarrānī; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narsī; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Yaḥyā al-Madanī; Abū Nuʿaym; ʿUbayd ibn Hishām al-Ḥalabī; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Maʿnī; ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Yaḥmadī (1) al-Marwazī; ʿAmr ibn Khālid al-Ḥarrānī; ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsitī; ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Narsī; Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah; Muḥammad ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Naysābūrī; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Wāqidī; Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān al-Baghawī; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Warkānī; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Sukaynah; Manṣūr ibn Abī Muzāḥim; Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Yasārī; Muḥriz ibn Salamah al-ʿAdanī; Muḥriz ibn ʿAwn; al-Haytham ibn Khārijah; Yaḥyā ibn Qazaʿah al-Madanī; Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān ibn Naḍlah al-Madanī; and Yazīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Naysābūrī al-Farrāʾ.
The last of his companions to pass away—one of the transmitters of the Muwaṭṭaʾ—was Abū Ḥudhāfah Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Sahmī, who outlived Mālik by eighty years (2).
He had performed the pilgrimage in earlier times and had met ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ. Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said: I heard Ibn Abī al-Zubayr relate, “Mālik narrated to us, saying: I saw ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ enter the mosque, grasp the knob of the pulpit, and then turn to face the qiblah” (3).