He lived to an advanced age and for a period he dictated hadith.
Those who transmitted from him were al-Ḥākim, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Saʿīd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥumaym the jurist, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Maʿrūf, and Sharik ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Mihrājānī—these were all among al-Bayhaqī’s teachers. The last person to relate from him was ʿUmar ibn Masrūr the ascetic.
Al-Ḥākim said, “I selected hadiths from him, and for a time he dictated to us from reliable originals. He died in Shawwal 370 AH.”
I (the author) add: He lived a little over ninety years.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Tamīmī and Zaynab bint ʿUmar narrated to us, from Zaynab al-Shaʿriyya. Ismāʿīl ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Qārī informed us—in the year 531 AH; ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad informed us; Bishr ibn Aḥmad informed us; Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Jābir informed us, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, from Abū Hurayrah:
that the Prophet ﷺ said, “When the two ʿIds fall on the same day, the first of them suffices.”
This is how the chain appears in my copy, and Abū Ṣāliḥ is missing. (1)