as well as Bishr ibn ʿUmar al-Zahrānī, Abū ʿAlī ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Ḥanafī, his brother Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Kabīr, Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Bursānī, Wahb ibn Jarīr, al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl—the earliest of them to pass away—Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Fāris, Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḍubaʿī, al-Aswad ibn ʿĀmir, Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥaḍramī, Abū ʿĀṣim, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Abū al-Mughīra al-Khawlānī, Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAffān, Abū al-Walīd, Muslim, Zakariyyā ibn ʿAdī, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān, and many others.
His chain then descends to Duḥaym and Khalīfa ibn Khayyāṭ.
Those who transmitted from him include Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd—who is older than he—Rajāʾ ibn Murajja, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Bazzār, Muḥammad ibn Bashshār Bundār, and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, all of whom are his seniors.
Al-Tirmidhī likewise narrated—via Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl from him—as did Baqī ibn Makhlad, Abū Zurʿa, Abū Ḥātim, Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazara, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bujayr, Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr al-Jārūdī, and ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar al-Samarqandī—the transmitter of his Musnad from him—together with many others.
ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Sulaymān al-Balkhī said: “I asked Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal about Yaḥyā al-Himmānī, and he replied, ‘We set him aside because of the statement of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, for he is an imam.’” (1)