al-Kajji; and Abū Nujayd Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Ḥadhdhāʾ; al-Khaḍir ibn Muḥammad al-Marāghī; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī; Yaʿqūb ibn Mubārak; Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Kinānī, the ḥāfiẓ; the judge Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Sadūsī; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥayyūwayh; and their contemporaries in Egypt. He also listened to the judge Yūsuf ibn al-Qāsim al-Mayyānjī, Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar the muʾadhdhin, and their peers in Damascus.

Those who reported from him include the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī, Rashāʾ ibn Naẓīf the Qurʾān-reciter, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī, Ibn Baqāʾ al-Warrāq, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, the judge Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Quḍāʿī, Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥabbāl, and many others besides them.

By written authorization (ijāza), Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr and others took from him.

He was counted among the great ḥuffāẓ.

Al-Barqānī said, “When al-Dāraquṭnī returned from Egypt I asked him, ‘Did you meet anyone on your journey who truly understands knowledge?’ He answered, ‘Throughout the entire route I saw no one except a young man in Egypt named ʿAbd al-Ghanī; he was like a blazing flame,’ and then he proceeded to exalt his standing and raise his renown.” (1)

Abū al-Fatḥ Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭarsūsī said, “When Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī resolved to leave us and depart from Egypt, we went out with him to bid him farewell. When we had said our good-byes we wept, whereupon he said, ‘Do you weep while ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd is among you? In him you have your replacement.’” (2)

ʿAbd al-Ghanī also composed a fascicle in which he pointed out the errors in the book ‘Al-Madkhal ilā al-Ṣaḥīḥ.’