• Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr ibn Shuʿbah Abū ʿUthmān al-Khurasānī, author of the Sunan, d. 227 AH (1).
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn ʿĪsā al-Qurashī, Abū Bakr al-Ḥumaydī, d. 219 AH (2).
• al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, Abū ʿUbayd al-Baghdādī, d. 224 AH (3).
• Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Bāhilī—their mawlā from Basra—Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, d. 227 AH (4); and many others besides.

His Students
After Imām Harb al-Kirmānī journeyed to the great centers of learning, sat with the scholars, and listened to hadith until he possessed an abundant store of knowledge, students of sacred learning flocked to him from every quarter. Among them were:
• Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Abū Bakr al-Marwazī, d. 275 AH,