He narrated from al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Muṭbaqī and his circle in Baghdad; from Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Zabban and his circle in Damascus; from Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus, Ibn al-Sindī, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Kindī, and many others in Egypt.
Narrated from him were: the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, ʿUmar ibn al-Khaḍir al-Thamānīnī, Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Qudayd, and others.
He passed away in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 378 AH.
309 – Ibn Shabbūyah, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Shabbūyī
The shaykh, reliable and eminent, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Shabbūyah al-Shabbūyī, from Marw.
He heard the Ṣaḥīḥ in 316 AH from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Firabrī, and he was among the senior Sufi shaykhs.
He transmitted the Ṣaḥīḥ in Marw in 378 AH; it was received from him by Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-ʿAyyār.
Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī said: “When al-Shabbūyī died, the people took the Ṣaḥīḥ from al-Kushmīhanī.”
Al-Sulamī mentioned him in Tabaqāt al-Ṣūfiyyah, saying: “He was one of the companions of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sayyārī.”
He had a ready tongue in the sciences of the Sufi brethren, and the teacher Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq inclined toward him. He is the one who saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in a dream, and he said: “I said, ‘O…’”