70- al-ʿAyshī, a scholar of Basra ⦗197⦘
71- Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, scholar of greater Syria ⦗197⦘
72- Dhū al-Nūn, shaykh of the Egyptian lands ⦗198⦘
73- Abū Thawr ⦗198⦘
Another tier: “Among them are al-Muzanī, al-Dhuhlī, al-Bukhārī, and Abū Zurʿah.” ⦗200⦘
74- al-Muzanī ⦗200⦘
75- al-Dhuhlī ⦗201⦘
76- al-Bukhārī ⦗202⦘
77- Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī ⦗203⦘
78- Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī ⦗206⦘
79- Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī ⦗207⦘
80- Aḥmad ibn Sinān ⦗208⦘
81- Imām Muḥammad ibn Aslam al-Ṭūsī ⦗208⦘
82- ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Warrāq ⦗212⦘
83- Ḥarb al-Kirmānī ⦗213⦘
84- ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī ⦗213⦘
85- Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī ⦗214⦘
86- Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt al-Rāzī ⦗214⦘
87- Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī ⦗214⦘
88- Imām Muslim ⦗214⦘
89- Qāḍī Ṣāliḥ ibn Imām Aḥmad ⦗214⦘
90- Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal ⦗215⦘
91- Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq ⦗215⦘
92- Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarsūsī ⦗215⦘
93- Baqī ibn Makhlad ⦗215⦘
94- Imām Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī ⦗215⦘