• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, Abū Yaḥyā al-Zaʿfarānī al-Rāzī: he narrated from Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Farrāʾ and his circle; reliable, a Qur’an commentator. He died in 279 AH.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Raqqī, the cotton-dealer: he transmitted from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar; deemed reliable.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād, Abū al-Faḍl al-Ramlī al-Qalānisī: he heard from ʿAffān and Ādam. Al-Ṭabarānī and Khaythamah met him. Truthful, devout, highly esteemed.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUthmān al-Ṭayālisī al-Baghdādī: a ḥāfiẓ and distinguished scholar, known as Abū al-Faḍl. He related hadith from ʿAffān, ʿĀrim, and their contemporaries; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī transmitted from him.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Khandaqī, the baker: he narrated from Khālid ibn Khidāsh and his peers.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb al-ʿAbbādānī: he reported from Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb and his circle; Jaʿfar al-Khuldī and al-Ṭabarānī narrated from him.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Kuzāl, the broker: he transmitted from ʿAffān and Saʿdawayh; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī and al-Ṭastī narrated from him. Not highly precise, yet his hadith is recorded.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Bālisī: he heard from al-Nufaylī and al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hāshim, the teacher: he narrated from ʿAffān; al-Ṭastī encountered him.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī, the teacher and bookseller: he transmitted from Sahl ibn ʿUthmān and Ibn Ḥumayd.