— as well as Ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zanjawayh al-Qushayrī, Muḥammad ibn al-Musayyab al-Arghiyānī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, and a number of others; he himself never travelled in search of ḥadīth.

Those who narrated from him include: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Bundār, Abū Saʿīd ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad, Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Naqqāsh, Abū Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī, and others.

Al-Ḥākim said in his History: “Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the ascetic, Abū Aḥmad al-Julūdī”—thus he named his father and grandfather—“was one of the leading devotees among the Sufis.”

He kept company with the companions of Shaykh Abū Ḥafṣ al-Naysābūrī; he used to copy manuscripts for wages and lived on the earnings of his own hand. He followed the legal school of Sufyān al-Thawrī and was well-versed in it.

Al-Ḥākim also said, when asked about al-Julūdī: “He was among the notable poor and ascetics, one of those engaged in the practical disciplines of Sufism.”

His certificates of audition from Ibn Sufyān were lost, so he copied some sections from a manuscript in which he had no personal hearing.

Al-Ḥākim further remarked: “With his death, the reliable transmission of the book of Muslim was sealed; anyone who narrates it after him from Ibrāhīm ibn Sufyān is not trustworthy.”

Ibn Nuqṭah said: “I have seen his lineage, in the handwriting of more than one ḥāfiẓ, as Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAmrawayh ibn Manṣūr.”

Al-Ḥākim stated that al-Julūdī died on the twenty-fourth of Dhū al-Ḥijjah in 368 AH, at the age of eighty, and was buried in the cemetery of al-Ḥīrah.

Ibn Dihyah said: “There is a divergence of opinion about al-Julūdī; some pronounce the jīm with a fatḥah in view of what….”