• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Layth al-Ziyādī: a Basran; he narrated from Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm and others of that rank, and he lived long enough for Ibn ʿAdī and his contemporaries to meet him.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Qubūrī: a Baghdadi, trustworthy. He heard Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, and from him narrated al-Shāfiʿī (1) and Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, Abū al-Faḍl al-Ḥimyarī, the ascetic: judge of Nasaf. He transmitted from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh and a number of others; he is not well-known.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUtayb, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Sukkari: he reported from Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar al-Qaysī and his cohort; Ibn al-Muẓaffar transmitted from him.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Iṣbahānī, the one-eyed merchant: he narrated from Ibn ʿArafah and al-Zaʿfarānī.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Baghdadi: he heard Maḥmūd ibn Khidāsh; truthful.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Karkhī: he narrated from Jubbārah ibn al-Mughallis and others. From him transmitted Ibn ʿAdī, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī, and Ibn Shāhīn.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Hurayrah: an Egyptian; he heard Harmalah and others.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bashshār ibn Abī al-ʿAjūz: he narrated from Maḥmūd ibn Khidāsh; Abū al-Faḍl al-Zuhrī and Ibn Shāhīn transmitted from him.
• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ṣandalī, the ascetic: he narrated from al-Zaʿfarānī and ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb.