He received ḥadith from Hāmid ibn Shuʿayb al-Balkhī, ʿUmar ibn Ayyūb al-Saqaṭī, Qāsim al-Muṭarriz, and Aḥmad ibn Sahl al-Ushnānī.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Barqānī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī, Ḥamzah al-Sahmī, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī.
Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable and said that he passed away at the end of 371 AH. Ḥamzah al-Sahmī added, “He was as trustworthy as a mountain.”
257 – al-Shammākhī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad
The traditionist, ḥāfiẓ, itinerant scholar, and author: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Asad ibn Shammākh al-Shammākhī al-Harawī al-Ṣaffār, compiler of the Mustakhraj on Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Jahm ibn Ṭalāb al-Mashgharaʾī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Harawī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith al-Miṣrī al-ʿAssāl, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ al-Juwaynī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Nayrūz al-Anmāṭī, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, and their cohort.
Narrators from him include Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAllān al-Shurūṭī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, Ghālib ibn ʿAlī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jahḍam, Abū Ḥāzim al-ʿAbdawī, al-Barqānī, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris, and Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb.