• Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Abū Bakr al-Marwazī, d. 275 AH, and Harb would write out for him, in his own hand, the questions he had heard from Abū ʿAbd Allāh (1).

• Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn, Abū Bakr al-Khallāl, d. 311 AH (2).
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Rāzī, d. 327 AH (3).
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kirmānī (4).
• al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad al-Kirmānī, resident of Ṭarsus (5).
• Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, d. 277 AH (6),
  and others besides.

[The Scholars’ Praise of Him]
The scholars extolled Imām Harb ibn Ismāʿīl al-Kirmānī and testified to his leadership in knowledge and virtue.

• Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī said: “Among the eminent men who visited us was Yaʿqūb ibn …”