He heard ḥadith from Makkī ibn ʿAbdān, Abū ʿAmr al-Ḥīrī, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, and his uncle Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbdūs.
From him narrated Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, who said, “I convened for him a dictation session in the year 388.”
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī, Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Ṣābūnī, and others.
He died in Shaʿbān of the year 396 AH.
Among his peers, themselves ḥadith masters and itinerant scholars, was:
26 – Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs al-Nasawī *
The ḥadith scholar of Marw.
He reported from ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAqab, Bukayr ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥaddād, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include the jurist Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qāsim al-Marwazī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, the jurist of Marw.
He was active after 400 AH.
Of the same tier was:
27 – Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs al-Ḥātimī **
A jurist of Nīshāpūr following the Shāfiʿī school.