Ibn Qurayn (1)—who was not considered trustworthy—, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī, Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣīnī the Blind, Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb the devotee, Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān of Damascus, Ḥāmid ibn ʿUmar al-Bakrāwī, the judge of Kirmān, Yazīd ibn Mawhab al-Ramli (2), Rūḥ ibn Ṣalāḥ of Egypt, Jumʿah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Balkhī—the brother of Khāqān—and Ḥibbān ibn Mūsā al-Marwazī.
29 – al-ʿUtbi, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Muʿāwiyah *
The erudite scholar, historian, poet, and polished stylist: Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb al-Umayyad, known as al-ʿUtbi of Basra.
He transmitted from Ibn ʿUyaynah, Abū Mikhnaf, and his own father.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī and Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Nakhaʿī.
He was given to drinking.
He produced literary works and enjoyed wide renown.
He died in 228 AH.
As for al-ʿUtbi the Mālikī, he is someone else who will appear in the next tier.