Among those who narrated from him were Ibn Shāhīn—who was one of his own teachers—Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Azharī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī bi-llāh, and a number of others.

Al-Azharī said: “I heard him say, ‘This ḥadīth was written down from me by Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq and al-Dāraquṭnī.’” (1)

Al-Azharī also related: “I used to sit with him while several fascicles lay before him. I would look through them, and he would ask, ‘Which do you prefer: that you cite a text and I give you its chain, or that you cite a chain and I provide the text?’ I would mention the texts, and he would supply their chains verbatim from memory. I did this with him many times. He was trustworthy, yet people envied him and spoke against him.” (2)

Ibn Abī al-Fawāris said: “He was lenient in ḥadīth: he would sometimes insert into the original collections of the shaykhs material that was not theirs, and he would link reports whose chains were actually broken.” (3)

Ibn Bukayr died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, in the year 388 AH, having lived sixty-one years. (4)