He heard from Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi, the author of Al-ʿIqd; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūnus the Qurʾān-reciter; and many others. During his travels he also received narrations from Abū Sahl al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ, and Daʿlaj al-Sijzī.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq—one of his own teachers—Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Maḥāmilī al-Shāfiʿī, Abū al-Walīd ibn al-Farḍī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭaḥḥān, and others.
He dictated ḥadith in the Great Mosque of Córdoba.
Abū ʿAlī al-Tannūkhī relates in Al-Nishwār: “I was present in the gathering of Abū al-Faraj, the author of Al-Aghānī, when he said, ‘We have never heard of anyone dying suddenly while on the pulpit.’ An Andalusian shaykh who regularly attended Abū al-Faraj, named Yaḥyā ibn ʿĀʾidh, responded: ‘I witnessed, in the congregational mosque of my hometown in al-Andalus, our preacher ascend the pulpit on a Friday to deliver the sermon. After proceeding only a little way into it, he collapsed dead on the pulpit. They brought him down at once and immediately looked for someone else to preach.’”
Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥabbāl said: “Ibn ʿĀʾidh died in al-Andalus in Shaʿbān of the year 376 AH.”
- Ibn Masrūr, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī
An imām, ḥāfiẓ, traditionist, and intrepid traveler—Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Masrūr al-Balkhī, who settled in Egypt.