He recited before Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Buyān, Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dībājī, ʿAlī ibn Dhuʾābah al-Qazzāz, and others. He also learned the Seven Readings from Abū Bakr ibn Mujāhid. In the closing days of his life he sat to teach Qurʾān, but the names of those who read to him have not reached us; I shall investigate that, God Most High willing.
Ibn Ṭāhir said: “He had a particular practice in tadlīs (concealed attribution): for any report he had not personally heard from al-Baghawī he would say, ‘It was read to Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī: So-and-so narrated to you…’”
Among those who transmitted from him were the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Tammām ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī, the jurist Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyinī, Abū Naṣr ibn al-Jundī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭayyān, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Abū Masʿūd al-Dimashqī, Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣbahānī, Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAtīqī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith al-Iṣbahānī the grammarian, the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Azajī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Simsār al-Dimashqī, Abū Ḥāzim ibn al-Farrāʾ—the brother of the judge Abū Yaʿlā—Abū al-Nuʿmān Turāb ibn ʿUmar al-Miṣrī, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī biʾllāh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ābanūsī (1) Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasnūn al-Narsī, Ḥamzah ibn Yūsuf al-Sahmī, and many others from among the people of Baghdad, Damascus, Egypt, and the travelling scholars.
Al-Ḥākim said: “Our teacher Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Dhuhl performed the pilgrimage, and he used to laud his phenomenal memory….”