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Tabari then travelled to study in Baghdad under [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]], who, however, had recently died (in late 855 or early 856).{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=19}} Tabari possibly made a pilgrimage prior to his first arrival in Baghdad.{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=19}} He left Baghdad probably in 242 AH (856/7 AD){{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=20}} to travel through the southern cities of [[Basra]], [[Kufa]]h and [[Wasit]].{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=19}} There, he met a number of eminent and venerable scholars.{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=20}} In addition to his previous study of Hanafi law, Tabari also studied the [[Shafi'i]], [[Maliki]] and [[Zahiri]] rites.<ref>[[Ibn al-Nadim]], ''[[al-Fihrist]]'', p. 291. Ed. Rida Tajaddud. [[Tehran]]: Dar al-Masirah, 1988.</ref> Tabari's study of the latter school was with the founder, [[Dawud al-Zahiri]],<ref>[[Christopher Melchert]], The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law: 9th–10th Centuries C.E., p. 185. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1997.</ref> and Tabari hand-copied and transmitted many of his teacher's works.<ref>[[Yaqut al-Hamawi]], ''Irshad'', vol. 18, p. 78.</ref> Tabari was then well-versed in four of the five remaining Sunni legal schools, before founding his own independent, yet eventually extinct, school. His debates with his former teachers and classmates were known, and served as a demonstration of said independence.<ref>Stewart, ''Tabari'', p. 326.</ref> Notably missing from this list is the [[Hanbali]] school, the fourth largest legal school within Sunni Islam in the present era. Tabari's view of Ibn Hanbal, the school's founder, became decidedly negative later in life. Tabari did not give Ibn Hanbal's dissenting opinion any weight at all when considering the various views of jurists, stating that Ibn Hanbal had not even been a jurist at all but merely a recorder of [[Hadith]].<ref>al-Hamawi, vol. 18, pp. 57–58.</ref>
On his return to [[Baghdad]], he took a tutoring position from the vizier, [[Ubaydallah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan]].{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=21}} This would have been before A.H. 244 (858), since the vizier was out of office and in exile from 244 to 248 (858–9 to 862).{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=21}} There is an anecdote telling that Tabari had agreed to tutor for ten dinars a month, but his teaching was so effective and the boy's writing so impressive that the teacher was offered a tray of dinars and dirhams. The ever-ethical Tabari declined the offer, saying he had undertaken to do his work at the specified amount, and could not honorably take more.{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=22}} That is one of a number of narratives about him declining gifts or giving gifts of equal or greater amount in return.{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=22}}
In his late twenties, he travelled to [[Syria]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[India]] and [[Egypt]].{{sfn|Rosenthal|1989|p=23}} In [[Beirut]], he made the highly significant connection of al-Abbas ibn al-Walid ibn Mazyad al-'Udhri al-Bayruti (c. 169–270/785–86 to 883–84). Al-Abbas instructed Tabari in the Syrian school's variant readings of the Qur'an and transmitted through his father al-Walid the legal views of [[Abd-al-Rahman al-Awzai|al-Awza'i]], Beirut's prominent jurist from a century earlier.
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