Karīmah, and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿĪsā al-ʿAṭṭār, Bassām ibn Yazīd al-Naqqāl, Bashshār ibn Mūsā, Bishr ibn al-Walīd al-Kindī, Ḥājib ibn al-Walīd, al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj al-Naqqāl, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah—his companion—, al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā, Khālid ibn Khidāsh, Khalaf ibn Sālim al-Mukharramī, Khalaf ibn Hishām al-Bazzār, Dāwūd ibn Rushayd, Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī, al-Rabīʿ ibn Thaʿlab, Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb, Surayj ibn Yūnus, Saʿīd ibn Zunbūr al-Hamdānī, Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān al-Mukharramī, nicknamed al-Aḥwal, Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān Saʿdawayh, Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Jarmī, Sulaymān ibn Ayyūb—the associate of al-Baṣrī—, Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, ʿAbd Allah ibn Khayrān, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAwn al-Kharrāz, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Jumaḥī, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Yazīd Mardawayh, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Baḥr, ʿAbd al-Mutaʿālī ibn Ṭālib, Abū Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Tammār, ʿUbayd Allah al-Qawārīrī, ʿUbayd Allah al-ʿAishī, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, ʿAmmār ibn Naṣr, Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām—one of his earliest teachers—, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Samīnah, Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Rayyān, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Madāʾinī, on the authority of Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt in his tract “Iṣṭināʿ al-Maʿrūf” (Cultivating Beneficence), Muḥammad ibn Ziyād ibn al-Aʿrābī, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Kātib, Muḥammad ibn Sallām al-Jumaḥī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Dūlābī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Jarjarāʾī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim—the keeper of the khān—who related to him from Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān and from Kathīr ibn Sulaym; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbād al-Makkī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāhib al-Ḥārithī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd—his father—, Muḥammad ibn ʿImrān ibn Abī Laylā al-Anṣārī, and Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī,