He narrated from Asīd ibn ʿĀṣim al-Thaqafī, Isḥāq al-Dabarī, Muḥammad ibn al-Mughīrah al-Sukkarī, Ibrāhīm ibn Dizil Sīfannah, Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Hamadhānī al-Ashajj, Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Bundār, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Salamah, ʿUmar ibn Maʿrūf—both of Hamadhān—al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Fallākī, and others besides.
Al-Ṣayqalī once asked about his age, and he said that he was one hundred and twelve years old.
Shīrawayh states in Tabaqāt al-Hamadhāniyyīn that he died in 372 AH.
Al-Khaṭīb comments, “He was not regarded as reliable by them.”
240 – al-Naḍrawī, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl ibn Zakariyyā
A trustworthy musnid: Abū Manṣūr al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl ibn Zakariyyā ibn Naḍruwayh—spelled with a ḍād—known as al-Naḍrawī al-Harawī.
He heard from Aḥmad ibn Najdah, al-Ḥusayn ibn Idrīs, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sāmī.
Among those who related from him were his grandson al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, Abū Ḥāzim al-ʿAbdawī, al-Barqānī, Saʿīd ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Qurashī, and Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb judged him reliable.
He died in Shaʿbān 372 AH in Herat.