His Students:
Imam Muslim had a large circle of disciples who heard hadith from him. As listed in Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, they include: Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Salamah, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, Abū ʿAmr al-Khiffāf, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbānī, Abū ʿAmr al-Mustamlī, Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ—both of whom were also among his own teachers—together with ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Junayd, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, and many others.