and he also heard from: Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq, Fitr ibn Khalīfa, Mālik ibn Mighwal, ʿUmar ibn Dharr, al-Awzāʿī, Sufyān al-Thawrī—of whom he narrated a great deal—Isrāʾīl, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bajalī, Ṣubayḥ ibn Muḥriz al-Maqraʾī (1), Abān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿAblah, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bahrām, Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq, Waraqāʾ, Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar, and many others besides them.
From him narrated: al-Bukhārī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Salamah ibn Shabīb, Abū Bakr ibn Zanjūyah, Muḥammad ibn Sahl ibn ʿAskar, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Barqī, Muʾammal ibn Yahāb, Ḥamīd ibn Zanjūyah, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī, ʿAbbās al-Tarqafī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Maryam, ʿAbd Allāh—his son (2)—ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Tarjumān al-Baysānī, ʿAmr ibn Thawr al-Judhāmī, Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Wārah, and a host of others.
He heard from Sufyān and kept his company for a period in Kūfa.
Aḥmad said, “He was a righteous man who accompanied Sufyān; I wrote ḥadīth from him in Mecca (3).”
Abū ʿUmayr ibn al-Naḥḥās said, “I asked Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, ‘Which do you prefer