He undertook far-reaching journeys and was endowed with knowledge and keen understanding.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, Ḥamzah al-Sahmī, Sulaym al-Rāzī, ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥassin al-Tanūkhī, Abū Masʿūd, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bajali, and several others.
Al-Sahmī (1) said: “He lived in Baghdad for many years, earning his livelihood as a copyist.”
He died in Ramadan of the year 398 AH.

32 – Ibn al-Wazīr, Abū Aḥmad Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Dimashqī
The imam, ḥadith master: Abū Aḥmad Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Wazīr al-Dimashqī, known as “the witness” (2), the transmitter of al-Shāfiʿī’s book al-Umm from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaḍāʾirī.
He also reported from his father and from Ibn Millās (3), who was the scribe of the judge al-Mayānajī (4).
Those who narrated from him include: ʿAlī al-Ḥinnāʾī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī.
He was renowned for the strength of his memory.
Al-Ahwāzī said: He died in the year 400 AH, at the age of one hundred and one.