Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir, in his History, records Muslim only on account of what he heard from Muḥammad ibn Khālid al-Saksakī. It appears, however, that he met him during the pilgrimage season; Muslim would hardly have entered Damascus and then contented himself with hearing from a single shaykh—Allah knows best.
Those who transmitted from him were:
• ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī ʿĪsā al-Hilālī—who was older than he—;
• Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ—his teacher, though Muslim did not cite him in the Ṣaḥīḥ—;
• al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbānī;
• Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr ibn Salamah al-Jārūdī;
• ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Junayd al-Rāzī;
• Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazrah;
• Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī in his Jāmiʿ;
• Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak al-Mustamlī;
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Sarakhsī, the judge;
• Abū Saʿīd Ḥātim ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Kindī al-Bukhārī;
• Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣayrafī;
• Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib—his companion—;
• Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah;
• Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sufyān, the jurist (1)—the principal transmitter of the Ṣaḥīḥ—;
• Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Khaffāf;
• Zakariyyā ibn Dāwūd al-Khaffāf;
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Khaffāf;
• Abū ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Balkhī, the ḥāfiẓ;
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim;
• ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār;
• Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdūn al-Aʿmashī;
• Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sharqī;
• Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasnowayh, the Qur’an-reciter—considered weak—;
• Aḥmad ibn Salamah, the ḥāfiẓ;
• Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr al-Bardhaʿī;
• Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sharqī;
• al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī;
• Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah;
• Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj;
• Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd ibn—