and Makhūl al-Shāmī, Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Yahyā ibn Saīd al-Ansārī, Yazīd ibn Abī Habīb al-Misrī, and others like them.
Then, (among)(1) those who came after them were figures such as Mālik, al-Thawrī, Hammād ibn Zayd, Hammād ibn Salama, al-Layth, al-Awzāī, Shuba, Zāida, Sufyān ibn Uyayna, and others like them.
Then, among those who came after them were figures such as Yahyā al-Qattān, Abd al-Rahmān ibn Mahdī, Ibn al-Mubārak, Abd Allāh ibn Wahb, Wakī ibn al-Jarrāh, Ismāīl ibn Ulayya, and Hushaym ibn Bashīr (2).
After these came al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwud, Abū Zura, Abū Hātim, Uthmān ibn Saīd al-Dārimī, (and Abd Allāh ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Dārimī)(3), Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Wāra, Abū Bakr al-Athram, Ibrāhīm al-Harbī, Baqī (4) ibn Makhlad al-Andalusī, and Muhammad ibn Waddāh.
(1) The word *min* (“among”) is absent from the source manuscripts.
(2) M: “and Hushaym ibn Abd ibn Bishr”; S, B: “and Hishām ibn Bishr.” He is Hushaym ibn Bashīr ibn al-Qāsim ibn Dīnār al-Sulamī, Abū Muāwiya. For his biography, see *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 11/59–64; *al-Alām*, 9/89. The list also includes Abū Yūsuf the judge, al-Shāfiī, Ahmad, al-Humaydī, Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh, al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, Abū Thawr, Ibn Maīn, Ibn al-Madīnī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shayba, and Abū Khaythama Zuhayr ibn Harb. N, S: “and Ibn Khaythama…”; this is an error. He is Abū Khaythama Zuhayr ibn Harb ibn Shaddād al-Harashī al-Nasāī. He was born in 160 AH and died in 234 AH. See his biography in *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 3/242–44.
(3) The text enclosed in square brackets is absent from N.
(4) N, S: “and Taqī”; this is a corruption.