He also received ḥadith from: Muḥammad ibn Ḥamduwayh ibn Sahl al-Marwazī; ʿAlī ibn Sakhtuyah; ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muʿāwiyah; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Khuzāʿī; Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir ibn Kātib and Ṣāliḥ ibn Zuhayr, both from Bukhara; ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Mādarāʾī (1); Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Fāris; and others of their generation.
He was the sole transmitter of certain reports from Ibn Ḥamduwayh and others.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said in al-Ansāb (2): “The nisba al-Sulaymānī goes back to his mother’s grandfather, Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Bīkandī. He authored major works, travelled across many lands, and in his era had no equal in chain of transmission, memorisation, understanding, and accuracy. Every Friday he would write something new, then enter from Bīkand to Bukhara and relate what he had composed.”
Those who narrated from him include: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Mustaghfirī; his son—or perhaps a later descendant—Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar; and a group of transmitters from those regions whom we do not know by name.
Abū Saʿd (3) also said: “He died in Dhū al-Qaʿda of the year 404 AH, at the age of ninety-three.”
Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Saʿd reported to us; ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Bīkandī reported to us; Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Kaʿbī dictated to us; Abū Sahl Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Abīwardī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Sulaymānī reported to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Samarqandī narrated to us; Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Samarqandī narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn Mīnā narrated to us; he said: “Muḥammad …”