and al-Wuḥāẓī; Abū Tawbah al-Ḥalabī; and a great many others.
He would even narrate from men of a lower tier such as Bundār, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās, al-Rabīʿ al-Murādī, and—below them—Ibn Wārah and Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf.
An exhaustive listing of the remainder (1) of his shaykhs is impossible. Al-Khalīlī relates: “The ḥāfiẓ Abū Ḥātim al-Labbān said to me, ‘I have collected the names of those from whom Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī transmitted; they come to nearly three thousand.’”
Those who transmitted from him include: his son, the ḥāfiẓ and Imām Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā and al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Muʾadhdhin—his two teachers; Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, his companion and kinsman; Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī; Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī; Aḥmad al-Ramādī; Mūsā ibn Isḥāq al-Anṣārī; Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā; Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Bukhārī—so it is said; Abū Dāwūd; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī in their Sunans; Ibn Ṣāʿid; Abū ʿAwānah al-Isfarāyinī; Ḥājib ibn Arkīn; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kinānī; Zakariyyā ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī; the judge al-Maḥāmilī; Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qaṭṭān; Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥakīm; Sulaymān ibn Yazīd al-Fāmī (2); al-Qāsim ibn Ṣafwān; Abū Bishr al-Dūlābī; Abū Ḥāmid ibn Ḥasnawayh; and many others.
During his journeys he narrated hadith in various places, travelled with his son, and through him met the disciples of Ibn ʿUyaynah and Wakīʿ.
The ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAdī said: “al-Rabīʿ narrated to us …”