His maternal uncle Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī took great care of him and arranged for him to hear hadiths from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, as well as from Abū Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Daghlī, Makkī ibn ʿAbdān, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī; and, during his journeys, from Ibn al-Aʿrābī, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū Ḥātim al-Wasqandī (1), and many others.

He mastered this science and authored a number of works.

Al-Ḥākim said, “I selected from him twenty fascicles, and afterwards his audition from al-Sarrāj became known.”

I add: Those who narrated from him include Al-Ḥākim, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī, Abū ʿUthmān al-Baḥīrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khashshāb, Saʿīd al-ʿAyyār, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Maghribī, and others.

Jawzaq is one of the villages of Nishapur.

Among his writings is the book (al-Muttafiq al-Kabīr), which comprises three hundred fascicles; Shaykh al-Islām Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī transmitted it from him.

It is reported that he used to say, “I spent one hundred thousand dirhams in the quest for hadith, yet I never earned a single dirham from it.”

He also composed a collection of forty hadiths that we ourselves have heard.

Al-Ḥākim stated, “He died in Shawwāl of the year 388 AH,” at the age of eighty-two.

In that same year there also died Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdān al-Shīrāzī and Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bukayr.