and Abū al-Fawāris ibn al-Sindī, Abū Hāmid Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Naysābūrī, Abū Aḥmad al-Julūdi, and several others; he also undertook many journeys in search of knowledge.
Among those who narrated from him were ʿAlī ibn Bushrā al-Laythī, ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim al-Khayyāṭ, al-Muṭahhar ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣbahānī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Fatḥ ibn al-Rassān, and others.
While in Egypt he recited the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim with the chain of transmission: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ashqar al-Shāfiʿī → Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Qalānisī → Muslim—except for the final three sections, which he narrated through al-Julūdi.
Al-Dāraqutnī judged him trustworthy, and al-Ḥabbāl said that he died in 387 AH.
393 – The Author of al-Qūt, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAṭiyya al-Ḥārithī*
The imām, the ascetic, the gnostic, and shaykh of the Sufis, Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAṭiyya al-Ḥārithī—raised in Mecca though of non-Arab stock.
He related from: Abū Bakr al-Ājurrī, Abū Bakr ibn Khallād al-Naṣībī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ṣanʿānī, Aḥmad ibn Ḍaḥḥāk the ascetic, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Maṣṣīṣī, and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Mufīd.