Those who narrated from him include Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Mīmāsī, and a number of others, and I am aware of no fault in him. He died in 372 AH, having reached an advanced age.

249 – Ibn Khafīf, Muḥammad ibn Khafīf al-Ḍabbī
The shaykh, the imam, the gnostic, the jurist, the exemplar, a man of many disciplines: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Khafīf ibn Isfakshār al-Ḍabbī al-Fārisī al-Shīrāzī, the shaykh of the Sufis.

He was born shortly before 270 AH.
He transmitted ḥadith from Ḥammād ibn Mudrik—the last of that scholar’s students—and from Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Tammār, al-Ḥusayn al-Maḥāmilī, and others.
In jurisprudence he studied under Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Surayj.

Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Faḍl al-Khuzāʿī, al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥafṣ al-Andalusī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Khaḍir al-Shayyāḥ, the judge Abū Bakr ibn al-Bāqillānī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bākawayh.

Al-Sulamī said: “He resided in Shiraz, and his mother was from Nishapur. Today he is the shaykh of the shaykhs and the chronicler of the age; none of the people is older than he, nor is anyone in a more perfect spiritual state. He kept company with…"