and Abū Muslim al-Khalīl ibn Salm—he met ʿAbd al-Wārith; Khallād ibn Aslam; Rawḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā Zahmawayh; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Raqāshī; Ziyād ibn Ayyūb; Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ al-Sammān; Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Jarmī; Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā al-Umawī; Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ; Sulaymān ibn Ayyūb, the companion of al-Baṣrī; Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Zahrānī; Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad al-Mubārak; Shujāʿ ibn Makhlad; Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tirmidhī; al-Ṣalt ibn Masʿūd; ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar al-Muqaddamī; ʿAbbās al-ʿAnbarī; ʿAbbās al-Dūrī; al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Narsī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ziyād; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sālim al-Maflūj; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿd al-Zuhrī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣandal, transmitting from al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Zurārah; ʿAbd Allāh Mushkudānah; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿImrān al-Rāzī; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ghiyāth; al-Qawārīrī; ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah; ʿUqbah ibn Mukram al-ʿAmmī; ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb; Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan; ʿAlī ibn Ḥakīm; ʿAlī ibn Muslim; ʿImrān ibn Bakkār al-Ḥimṣī; ʿAmr al-Fallās; ʿAmr al-Nāqid; ʿĪsā ibn Sālim; Abū Kāmil al-Fuḍayl al-Jaḥdarī; Fiṭr ibn Ḥammād; Qāsim ibn Dīnār; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, by correspondence; Qaṭan ibn Nusair; Kathīr ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥanafī; Layth ibn Khālid al-Balkhī; Abū Bakr al-Ṣāghānī; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Musayyabī; Bundār; Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqaddamī; Muḥammad ibn Bakkār, client of Banū Hāshim; Muḥammad ibn Tamīm al-Nahshalī; Muḥammad ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Suwāʾ; Muḥammad ibn Ḥassān al-Samti; Muḥammad ibn Ishkāb; Muḥammad Luwayn; Muḥammad ibn Ṣudrān; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh—a neighbor of theirs, known as Abū Bakr; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharrimī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ruzzī (1); Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Ṣāʿiqah,