I say: Those who transmitted hadith from him include Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Manda, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Zaʿfarānī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar, Salm ibn ʿIṣām, and several others. He possessed singular reports, just like his brother. He passed away in 252 AH.
89 – Aḥmad ibn Sinān ibn Asad ibn Ḥibbān al-Wāsiṭī (cited by al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, and Ibn Mājah)
The imam, ḥadith master, and meticulous scholar, Abū Jaʿfar al-Wāsiṭī, the cotton merchant.
He was born sometime after 170 AH.
Among the authorities he heard from are Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr, Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, and others of that rank. He also compiled a Musnad.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah, his son Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad, Ibn Khuzaymah, al-Nasāʾī in his collection of Mālik’s narrations, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Mubashshir, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, and many others besides them.