9 — Ahmad ibn Abdah ibn Mūsā al-Dabbī, Abū Abd Allāh al-Basrī (1). He narrated from Ibn Anbasah, al-Tayālisī, Abū Alqamah Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad al-Farwī al-Madanī, Abd al-Wārith ibn Saīd, Yahyā ibn Saīd al-Qattān, and Yazīd ibn Zuray. The compilers of the Six Books, apart from al-Bukhārī, narrated from him. He died in 245 AH.

10 — Ahmad ibn Uthmān al-Basrī, Abū al-Jawzā, brother of Abū al-Āliyah (2). He narrated from Azhar ibn Sad al-Sammān, Abū Dāwūd al-Tayālisī, Abū Āsim al-Dahhāk ibn Makhlad, Abū Āmir al-Aqadī, and others. Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāī, Ahmad ibn Uthmān al-Nasawī, Abū Zurah al-Rāzī, Ibn Khuzaymah, and others narrated from him. He died in 246 AH and was among the devout worshippers of Basra.

11 — Ahmad ibn al-Faraj al-Himsī, Abū Utbah al-Kindī, nicknamed al-Hijāzī the muezzin (3). He narrated from Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, Damrah ibn Rabīah, Muhammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī, Abū al-Ghayrah al-Khawlānī, and others. Al-Nasāī narrated from him “in works other than the Sunan.” Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Yahyā ibn Sāid, Ibn Abī Hātim, and others also narrated from him. He died in 271 AH.

12 — Ahmad ibn al-Miqdām ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Ashath ibn Aslam ibn Suwayd ibn al-Aswad ibn Rabīah, Abū al-Ashath al-Basrī (4). He narrated from Khālid ibn al-Hārith, Fudayl ibn Sulaymān al-Numayrī, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Tafāwī, and others, and al-Bukhārī narrated from him,