and Qatādah; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabbān; Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Hād; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī; and many others besides.
Indeed, he even narrated from some of his own pupils. He reported directly from Nāfiʿ, yet later on he transmitted a hadith with four transmitters standing between himself and Nāfiʿ. The same occurred with his teacher Ibn Shihāb: he related more than one hadith in which three narrators separated him from Ibn Shihāb.
A great multitude transmitted from him, among them: Ibn ʿAjlān—his own shaykh—; Ibn Luhayʿah; Hushaym; Ibn Wahb; Ibn al-Mubārak; ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid; Shabābah; Ashhab; Saʿīd ibn Shuraḥbīl; Saʿīd ibn ʿUfair; al-Qaʿnabī; Ḥujayn ibn al-Muthannā; Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam; Ādam ibn Abī Iyās; Aḥmad ibn Yūnus; his son Shuʿayb ibn al-Layth; Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam; Manṣūr ibn Salamah; Yūnus ibn Muḥammad; Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī; Abū al-Jahm al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Mūsā; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd; Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ; Yazīd ibn Mawhib al-Ramlī; Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah; ʿĪsā ibn Ḥammād—known as Zughbah; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ the scribe; ʿAmr ibn Khālid; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Tinnīsī.
Al-Ḥārith ibn Miskīn later reached him and posed a legal question, and Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī saw him in Baghdad while still a youngster.
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; al-Fath informed us; al-Urmawī, Ibn al-Dāyah, and al-Ṭarāʾifī informed us, saying:
Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima informed us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ related to us; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd related to us; al-Layth related to us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Saʿd ibn Sinān, from Anas ibn Mālik:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Prior to the Hour there will be tribulations like patches of a dark night: during them a man will greet the morning as a believer and reach the evening a disbeliever, and reach the evening a believer…’.”