ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl al-Sutūrī; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥakīmī; Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī; Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-ʿAtakī; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī, known as al-Jammāl; Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾammil al-Māsarjisī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥbūb—the muhaddith of Marw—; Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasnūwayh; al-Ḥasan ibn Yaʿqūb al-Bukhārī; al-Qāsim ibn al-Qāsim al-Sayyārī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣibghī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs al-ʿAnazī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (1) al-Shuʿaybī, the jurist; Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Shaʿrānī; Abū Aḥmad Bakr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī, the money-changer (al-Ṣayrafī); Abū al-Walīd Ḥassān ibn Muḥammad, the jurist; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, the ḥāfiẓ; Ḥājib ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭūsī—although no record of his audition from him survives—; ʿAlī ibn Ḥamshād al-ʿAdl; Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Hāniʾ; Abū al-Naḍr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, the jurist; Abū ʿAmr; ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad al-Daqqāq al-Baghdādī; Abū Bakr al-Najjād; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Durustawayh; Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād; ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān al-Jallāb—the shaykh of Hamadhān; al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUqbah al-Shaybānī; Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim ibn Khuzaymah al-Kashshī—a shaykh who claimed to have met ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd—and many others besides them, to the extent that he even transmitted from Abū Ṭāhir al-Ziyādī and Qāḍī Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Dāraquṭnī—who was actually one of his teachers—and Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī