He compiled his work al-Fawāʾid (1) in a single volume, carefully selecting reports from scholars well-versed in ḥadīth.
Among those who narrated from him were: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī—one of his own teachers—Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Maydānī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Labbād, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAtīqī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭarāʾifī, and many others besides.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī said: “Our teacher, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim Tamām, passed away three nights into Muḥarram in the year 414 AH.
“He was trustworthy, a ḥāfiẓ; I have not met anyone with a better command of the Syrian ḥadīth corpus (2). He himself stated that he was born in 330 AH.”
Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī remarked: “I have never seen anyone like Tamām in his discipline; he was learned in ḥadīth and in the evaluation of narrators (3).”
Abū Bakr said: “We have never encountered anyone his equal in memorization and virtue (4).”
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad the judge conveyed to us, by authorized transmission; ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamza informed us in the year 525 AH; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad informed us; Tamām ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; al-Ḥasan informed us