18- Jarīr al-Ḍabbī, ḥadīth scholar of Rayy ⦗151⦘
19- ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, Shaykh al-Islām ⦗151⦘
20- al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, shaykh of the Sacred Precinct ⦗152⦘
21- Hushaym ibn Bashīr, scholar of the people of Baghdad ⦗153⦘
22- Nūḥ al-Jāmiʿ, jurist of Khurāsān ⦗153⦘
23- ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwām, ḥadīth scholar of Wāsiṭ ⦗154⦘
24- The judge Abū Yūsuf ⦗154⦘
25- ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs, one of the luminaries ⦗158⦘
26- Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, jurist of Iraq ⦗158⦘
27- Bukayr ibn Jaʿfar al-Sulamī, one of the scholars of Jurjān ⦗159⦘
28- Bishr ibn ʿUmar al-Zahrānī ⦗160⦘
29- Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, chief of the ḥadīth masters ⦗160⦘
30- Manṣūr ibn ʿAmmār, preacher of his age ⦗161⦘
31- Abū Nuʿaym al-Balkhī ⦗162⦘
32- Abū Muʿādh al-Balkhī, the jurist ⦗163⦘
33- Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah ⦗164⦘
34- Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh ⦗166⦘
35- ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, ḥadīth scholar of Wāsiṭ ⦗167⦘
36- Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Shaykh al-Islām ⦗167⦘
37- Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḍubʿī, scholar of Baṣrah ⦗168⦘
38- Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ, scholar of Kūfah ⦗168⦘
39- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī ⦗169⦘
40- Wahb ibn Jarīr, one of the imams of Baṣrah ⦗170⦘
41- al-Aṣmaʿī, leading scholar of his age in language and literature ⦗170⦘
42- al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad, Imām of the Arabic language in grammar, rhetoric, and poetry ⦗171⦘
43- al-Farrāʾ, Imām of Arabic grammar ⦗171⦘
44- al-Khuraybī, one of the imams of tradition ⦗172⦘