The following list contains a sample of Anas' most notorious ‘pupils’, probably responsible – or people using their names – for the majority of the obviously fabricated material that goes under Anas' name:

Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh (Tahdhīb, 1, no. 174);

ʿAbd al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbd Allāh (Tahdhīb, vi, no. 216);

ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Dīnār (Tahdhīb, vi, no. 227);

Abū ʿAtika (Tahdhīb, xii, no. 676);

Abū ′z-Zinād ʿAbd Allāh b. Dhakwān (Tahdhīb, v, no. 351);

Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd Allāh (Lisān, I, no. 676);

al-ʿAlāʾ b. Zayd (Tahdhīb, viii, no. 327);

ʿAlāq b. Abī Muslim (Tahdhīb, viii, no. 357);

ʿAlqama b. Abī ʿAlqama (Tahdhīb, vii, no. 482);

ʿAṭāʿ b. as-Sīʾib (Tahdhīb, vii, no. 385);

Bashīr b. al-Muhājir (Tahdhīb, I, no. 867);

Dāwūd b. ʿAffān (Ibn al-Jawzī, Kitāb al-mawḍū ʿāt, I, p. 119);

Farqad b. Yaʿqūb (Tahdhīb, viii, no. 486);

Hilāl b. Abī Hilāl (Tahdhīb, xi, no. 142);

Hilāl b. Zayd (ibidem, no. 126);

Ḥumayd aṭ-Ṭawīl (Tahdhīb, iii, no. 65);

Ibrāhīm b. Hudba (Lisān, I, no. 370; he lived until 200 a.h.!);

ʿIsā b. Ṭahmān (Tahdhīb, iii, no. 398);

Iyās b. Muʿāwiya (Tahdhīb, 1, no. 720);

Kathīr b. ʿAbd Allīh (Tahdhīb, viii, no. 746);

Kathīr b. Sulaym (ibidem, no. 745);

Khālid b. ʿUbayd (Tahdhīb, iii, no. 191);

Khuṣayf b. ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān (Tahdhīb, iii, no. 275);

Maṭar b. Maymūn (Tahdhīb, x, no. 320);

Maṭar al-Warrāq (ibidem, no. 316);

Muḥammad b. Juḥāda (Tahdhīb, ix, no. 120);