al-Jawharī, a mawlā (client) of the Banū Hāshim.
Born: in the year 134 AH (1).
He heard from: Shuʿbah; Ibn Abī Dhʾīb; Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān—one of the younger tābiʿīs; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim; Sufyān al-Thawrī; al-Masʿūdī; Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq; al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥaddānī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit ibn Thawbān; Mubārak ibn Faḍālah; Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī; Maʿrūf ibn Wāṣil; Hammām ibn Yaḥyā; Baḥr ibn Kanīz al-Saqqāʾ; Jasr ibn al-Ḥasan; al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy; the two Ḥammāds; al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣabīḥ; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah; Sallām ibn Miskīn; Shaybān the grammarian; Ṣakhr ibn Juwayriyah; ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bahrām; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājashūn; Mālik ibn Anas; ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī al-Rifāʿī; Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ; Muḥammad ibn Rāshid; Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif; Muḥammad ibn Muṭarrif; Waraqāʾ ibn ʿUmar; Abū al-Ashhab al-ʿAṭāridī; Abū ʿAqīl Yaḥyā ibn al-Mutawakkil; and many others besides them.
Narrations from him were taken by: al-Bukhārī; Abū Dāwūd; Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn; Khalaf ibn Sālim; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—though only a small number—and Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī,