al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, and a number of scholars in Nishapur.
He devoted himself to this discipline, giving equal attention to the wording of the reports and to their chains of transmission.
He also related hadith from: Abū ʿAmr ibn al-Sammāk, Mukram the judge, Abū ʿUmar Ghulām Thaʿlab (1), Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAqabī (2), Abū Bakr al-Najjād, and Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Khuldī.
He studied jurisprudence in the Shāfiʿī school under Abū Bakr al-Qaffāl al-Shāshī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Abī Hurayrah, and their peers.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim (3)—even though he was his contemporary in both age and isnād—Imām Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāʾīnī (4), Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Razjāhī (5), the erudite Abū ʿUbayd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Harawī, Abū Masʿūd al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Karābīsī, Abū Dharr ʿAbd ibn Aḥmad, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī al-Ghaznawī, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Marūdhī, who was living near the Sacred Precinct, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ghaznawī the Qurʾān-reciter, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sijzī the jurist, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Fārisī al-Fasawī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī, and many others besides them.
Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad the jurist—and Shuhdah bint Ḥassān—told us:
Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī al-Mālikī informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī informed us, saying: “As for Abū…"