He also narrated from: his own father; al-Ustadh ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Bukhārī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Balkhī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khanb (1); Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-ʿUsfurī; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Jammāl; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sulamī; and a number of others.
In his later years he journeyed abroad, teaching and transmitting in Bukhara, Balkh, Samarqand, and Nasaf.
He was born in Rajab of the year 326 AH.
A group of scholars from those regions reported from him; the last of his pupils to die was Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī the dihqān.
He passed away in Bukhara in Ṣafar of the year 411 AH.
115 – al-Sulaymānī, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, centenarian, and foremost hadith scholar of Transoxiana: Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr (2) ibn Ḥamd (3) ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAnbar, grandson of Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān, al-Sulaymānī al-Bīkandī al-Bukhārī.
He was born in the year 311 AH.