They were followed by such scholars as Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī, Yahyā ibn Saīd, Abū al-Zinād, Rabīa, Mālik ibn Anas, Ibn Abī Dhi'b, Abd al-Azīz al-Mājishūn, and others.
Likewise, there were Tāwūs al-Yamānī, Mujāhid, Atā, Saīd ibn Jubayr, Ubayd ibn Umayr, and Ikrima, the freedman of Ibn Abbās.
Those who came after them included Amr ibn Dīnār, Ibn Jurayj, Ibn Uyayna, and other scholars of Mecca.
Likewise, there were al-Hasan al-Basrī, Muhammad ibn Sīrīn, Jābir ibn Zayd Abū al-Shathā, and Mutarrif ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Shikhkhīr; then Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Abd Allah ibn Awn, Sulaymān al-Taymī, Qatāda, Saīd ibn Abī Arūba, Hammād ibn Salama, and Hammād ibn Zayd (1).
Others of their kind included Alqama, al-Aswad, Shurayh the judge, and their peers; then Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaī, Āmir al-Shabī, al-Hakam ibn Utayba, and Mansūr ibn al-Mutamir, continuing through Sufyān al-Thawrī, Abū Hanīfa, Ibn Abī Laylā, and Sharīk, and then through Wakī ibn al-Jarrāh, Abū Yūsuf, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan, and their peers.
Then came al-Shāfiī, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh, Abū Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, al-Humaydī Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, Abū Thawr, Muhammad ibn Nasr al-Marwazī, Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Tabarī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Mundhir, and others whom no one