ibn Salīṭ; Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr; Isḥāq ibn Mūsā; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways—whom he met on his very first journey—Ismāʿīl ibn al-Khalīl; Ismāʿīl ibn Sālim al-Ṣāʾigh; Umayya ibn Bisṭām; Bishr ibn al-Ḥakam; Bishr ibn Khālid; Bishr ibn Hilāl; Jaʿfar ibn Ḥumayd; Ḥājib ibn al-Walīd; Ḥāmid ibn ʿUmar al-Bakrawī; Ḥibbān ibn Mūsā; Ḥajjāj ibn al-Shāʿir; Harmala ibn Yaḥyā; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥarrānī; al-Ḥasan ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Būrānī; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Khallāl; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿĪsā ibn Māsirjis; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥurayth; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿĪsā al-Bisṭāmī; al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā; Ḥammād ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayya; Ḥumayd ibn Masʿada; Khālid ibn Khidāsh; Khalaf ibn Hishām; Dāwūd ibn Rushayd; Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr; Rifāʿa ibn al-Haytham al-Wāsiṭī; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā, the scribe of al-ʿUmarī; Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb; Ziyād ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥassānī; Surayj ibn Yūnus; Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Karābīsī; Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr al-Ashʿathī; Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Jarmī; Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr; Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Azhar; Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā al-Umawī; Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Khuttalī; Sahl ibn ʿUthmān; Suwayd ibn Saʿīd; Shujāʿ ibn Makhlad; Shihāb ibn ʿAbbād; Shaybān ibn Farrūkh; Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥātim; Ṣāliḥ ibn Mismār; al-Ṣalt ibn Masʿūd; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Naḍr; ʿAbbād ibn Mūsā; ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm; ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Narsī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barrād; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Barmakī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Zurārah; ʿAbd Allāh al-Dārimī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Abān; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Rūmī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwn al-Kharrāz; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Asmāʾ; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Zuhrī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah al-Qaʿnabī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muṭīʿ; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-ʿAlāʾ; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bayān; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr; and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bakr ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn