as well as Zanjuwayh ibn Muḥammad al-Labbād, Mūsā ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Juwaynī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Dhahabī, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdūn al-Aʿmashī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn al-Naysābūrī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Isfarāyinī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥfūẓ, Ibn al-Sharqī, Makkī ibn ʿAbdān, his maternal grandfather Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr ibn Ziyād, al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿIṣām, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Marwazī—the companion of ʿAlī ibn Ḥujar—al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Wakīl, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim, Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī, Yaʿqūb ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī, Abū Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khashshāb, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azharī, and many others.
Some of his high-chain transmissions (ʿawālī) have reached us.
Al-Ḥākim said: “His auditions and written copies are sound; he was exact in transmission, a dictation scholar in the Dār al-Sunnah, and the leading hadith expert of his time. He died in Rajab 389 AH.”
Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us; al-Muʾayyad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Aḥmad ibn Sahl al-Masājidī informed us; and Aḥmad, on the authority of Zaynab al-Shaʿriyyah and al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, likewise informed us. They said:
Wajīh ibn Ṭāhir informed us—and Aḥmad, from Zaynab, also informed us—Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥurḍī informed us; they all said: Yaʿqūb ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Mukhladī dictated to us; Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj narrated to us; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad narrated from Suhayl, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
“Woe to the heels from the Fire.”