and Ibn Sayuyah the tutor; and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Tabbān; and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Shāh al-Mahrajānī; and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Abī al-Shaykh—his grandson; and Abū Dharr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāliḥānī; and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Yazdī; and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazda al-Malanjī, the Qurʾān–reciter; and Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAṭṭār, the Qurʾān–reciter; and ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ṣūfī; and al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad al-Qaṣṣār; and Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Kātib; and others.

Ibn Mardawayh said: “He is trustworthy and reliable; he compiled a tafsīr and many other books on legal rulings and the like.”

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said: “Abū al-Shaykh was a ḥāfiẓ, solid, and precise.”

Abū al-Qāsim al-Sūdhurjānī said: “He is one of Allah’s righteous servants, trustworthy and reliable.”

Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī said: “Along with the devotion already mentioned, he used to write every day a dastajah (a quire) of paper, for he copied texts and authored works. He presented his book (Thawāb al-Aʿmāl) (The Reward of Deeds) to al-Ṭabarānī, who approved of it.”

It is related from him that he said, “I never entered a hadith into a book until after I had acted upon it.”

One of the students said: “Whenever I entered upon Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, he was either joking or laughing; whenever I entered upon Abū al-Shaykh, he was praying.”

I say: Abū al-Shaykh has the book (al-Sunnah) (The Sunnah), one volume; the book (al-ʿAẓamah) (Majesty), one volume; the book (al-Sunan) (Legal Traditions) in several volumes, of which the book (al-Adhān) (The Call to Prayer) and the book (al-Farāʾiḍ) (The Prescribed Shares) have reached us, along with other works.

He also authored (Thawāb al-Aʿmāl) (The Reward of Deeds) in five volumes.