al-ʿAbdawī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid ibn Muḥammad al-Harawī, Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Masrūr, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī, Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kanjarūdhī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn al-Sulamī, Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nīlī al-Shāfiʿī, and others besides.
al-Ḥākim said: A daughter was born to him when he was ninety years old, and he passed away while his wife was pregnant. I was informed that she said to him at the moment of his death, “My delivery is near.” He replied, “I have entrusted the matter to Allah, for my exoneration has just been brought down from heaven.” He then pronounced the testimony of faith and died on the spot.
al-Ḥākim also said: I heard Abū ʿAmr list the musnad collections in his possession that he had heard in full. He named: the Musnad of Ibn al-Mubārak, the Musnad of al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, the Musnad of Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, the Musnad of Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, the Musnad of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shīrawayh, the Musnad of al-Sarrāj, and the Musnad of Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥammāl.
al-Ḥākim further said: The mosque served as his bed for a little over thirty years. When blindness and weakness overtook him he was moved to some relatives in Ḥīrah. He was among the expert reciters and grammarians, and his audition certificates were sound. His father had taken him on travels in pursuit of knowledge; he kept company with the ascetics, met Abū ʿUthmān and other shaykhs, and heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn Zanjawayh in 295 AH. He died on 28 Dhu al-Qaʿdah 376 AH, at the age of ninety-three or ninety-four, and the funeral prayer was led by the ḥāfiẓ Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim.
The ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī said: He inclined toward Shiʿism.
I say: His Shiʿi leanings were mild, like those of al-Ḥākim.