and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Kajjī; Ibrāhīm ibn Danuqā; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Haytham al-Baladī; Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Jammāl; Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarbī—he received from him the Muwaṭṭaʾ; Bishr ibn Mūsā al-Asadī; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allah Zaghāth; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Burd al-Anṭākī; Muḥammad ibn al-Jahm al-Simmarī; Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Bāghandī; Mūsā ibn al-Ḥasan al-Julājalī; Muḍar ibn Muḥammad al-Asadī; Mūsā ibn Hārūn al-Ḥammāl; ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Maʿmarī; Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAbsī, and many others.
He copied the later works of al-Shāfiʿī from the jurist Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jawn al-Farghānī, a disciple of al-Rabīʿ.
Our teacher Abū al-Ḥajjāj arranged Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī’s shaykhs alphabetically, but limited himself to those from whom he transmits in the Ghaylāniyyāt; here I have mentioned only their leading figures.
The last person to relate his ḥadith with an elevated chain was Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Ṭabarzad: between him and Abū Bakr stood just two transmitters—Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥusayn from Abū Ṭālib ibn Ghaylān, from him.
Whoever failed to obtain the Ghaylāniyyāt, the Qaṭīʿiyyāt, and the fascicle of al-Anṣārī finds his chain one degree lower; after that he will find nothing higher than the narrations of al-Baghawī, then Ibn Ṣāʿid. Whoever also lacks the ḥadith of these two descends to the level of the transmissions of al-Maḥāmalī, al-Aṣamm, and Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, the transmitter of the fascicle of Ibn ʿArafah.
Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī lived to a ripe old age, uniquely preserving narrations from many teachers. Students crowded around him because of the accuracy of his transmission and the loftiness of his isnād.