and al-Maḥāmilī, Ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār, Ibn ʿUqda, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān, Ibn al-Aʿrābī, Muḥammad ibn Wardān al-ʿĀmirī, Aḥmad ibn Zabbān al-Kindī, Ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥaṣāʾirī (1), Khaythama, al-Rabīʿ ibn Salāmah al-Ramlī, and the scholars of their tier.
He travelled far and wide and produced praiseworthy works.
Among those who narrated from him are al-Ḥākim, al-Sulamī, Abū Nuʿaym, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarudhī, and others.
Al-Ḥākim said, “He was one of the pillars of ḥadith in Khurāsān, in addition to the devotion, asceticism, generosity, and staunch loyalty to Ahl al-Sunnah that he embodied. His first journey was to Marw, to al-Layth ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī.
When he died in Ṭābarān (2) he left no one like him behind. As for the sciences of Sufism—their reports and his meetings with their masters—he likewise left no equal in Khurāsān in that field (3).”
I add: he kept company with Abū Bakr al-Shiblī in Baghdad.
He died in Muḥarram, 383 AH.
Ibn ʿAsākir (4) informed us, through ʿAbd al-Muʿizz; Zāhir informed us; Abū Saʿd informed us