as well as al-Qāsim ibn Zakariyyā al-Mutarriz, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zaydān al-Bajalī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Bāghandī, Ḥāmid ibn Shuʿayb al-Balkhī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʿaffā al-Ṣaydāwī, and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Shākir al-Zanjānī—his audition from the last-mentioned took place in 294 AH—together with Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj and their contemporaries, and Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī.
He traveled widely, possessed keen understanding, and composed works, all while being reliable and trustworthy.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Kattānī said, “More than forty persons transmitted from him, and he was trustworthy and distinguished.”
Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī remarked, “A well-known ḥadīth scholar; there is no objection to him.”
I say: Among those who narrated from him are Tammām al-Rāzī, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd the ḥāfiẓ, Abū Saʿīd al-Mālīnī, Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad al-Mayānajī—his nephew—Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭayyān, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Simsār, Aḥmad ibn Salamah ibn al-Kāmil, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr, his brother Aḥmad, and a number of others.
Several fascicles of his higher-level transmissions have reached me.
Among his early shaykhs were ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājiya, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqalānī, and Ibn Khuzaymah.
I read before al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī and Ismāʿīl ibn Naṣr Allāh: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Nassābah informed both of you, saying: Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣābir informed us, saying: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muwāzinī informed us, saying: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Saʿdān informed us in 440 AH, saying: the judge Yūsuf narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājiya narrated to us in Baghdad, saying: