وَفِي مِثْلِ مَجْرَى هَؤُلَاءِ إِذَا وَازَنْتَ بَيْنَ الْأَقْرَانِ كَابْنِ عَوْنٍ وَأَيُّوبَ السَّخْتِيَانِيِّ مَعَ عَوْفِ بْنِ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ وَأَشْعَثَ الْحُمْرَانِيِّ وَهُمَا صَاحِبَا الْحَسَنِ وَابْنِ سِيرِينَ كَمَا أَنَّ ابْنَ عَوْنٍ وَأَيُّوبَ صَاحِبَاهُمَا
Translation: Similarly, compare contemporaries Ibn ʿAwn and Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī with ʿAwf b. Abī Jamīlah and Ashʿath al-Ḥumrānī. All transmitted from al-Ḥasan and Ibn Sīrīn.
Sharing teachers does not guarantee identical transmission quality. Students in the same circle may differ in accuracy and retention; their particular routes and overall precision remain central to evaluation.