and Muḥammad ibn Makhlad; al-Mahamili; Dahlaj; Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Kādhī (1); Abū Bakr al-Najjād; Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī; Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf; Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl; Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh; Aḥmad ibn Kāmil; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī; Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī; and many others.
Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Bashīr said, “I heard ʿAbbās al-Dūrī remark, ‘I was once with Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal when Ibn ʿAbd Allāh came in. Aḥmad turned to me and said, ‘O ʿAbbās! Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān has committed a vast store of knowledge to memory.’” (2)
Among his shaykhs were: Aḥmad al-Dawraqī; Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Rāshid; Aḥmad ibn Budayl; Aḥmad ibn Janāb; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Junaydab; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Khirāsh; Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Khallāl; Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī; Aḥmad ibn Ḥumayd; Aḥmad ibn Ḥātim; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdah al-Baṣrī; Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Wakīʿī; Ibn ʿĪsā al-Tustarī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mughīrah al-Ḥimṣī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bāhilī; Ibrāhīm ibn Ziyād Sabalān; Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bashshār al-Wāsiṭī; Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr—better known as Ibn Abī al-Layth; Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭālaqānī; Isḥāq al-Kawsaj; Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tarjumānī; Abū Maʿmar al-Hudhalī; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd ibn Abī Karīmah; Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿaqqib; Ismāʿīl ibn Mahdī; and Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā.
He also heard from: Ḥumayd; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl; Jaʿfar ibn Mihrān ibn al-Sabbāk; Jaʿfar ibn Abī Hurayrah; Ḥajjāj ibn al-Shāʿir; al-Ḥasan ibn Qa zaʿah; al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ; and Hawtharah ibn Ashras. And Abū Muslim al-Khalīl ibn Salm—he met ʿAbd