Narrated from him were: Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī—frequently so—Abū Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā his son, ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥmī, Hibat Allāh ibn Abī al-Ṣaḥbāʾ, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Thaqafī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Akhram, and others.

He was a trustworthy shaykh, eminent and virtuous—an ascetic, God-fearing, and exacting scholar. He would never transmit a tradition unless the master copy was in his hand, against which he collated, and he narrated a large body of ḥadith.

He possessed keen expertise in the Shāfiʿī school, having studied under the ustādh Abū al-Walīd Ḥassān ibn Muḥammad.

He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 414 AH.

I read in Mecca before Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad, who reported to us from ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh; and I read in Aleppo before Sunqur al-Zaynī, who reported to us from ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd. They both said:

“Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī informed us; al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to us; al-Ṣaghānī narrated to us; Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, saying:

‘Ibn Jurayj said: ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmārah informed me that he heard al-Qarrāḍ claim he heard Abū Hurayrah say:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Whoever intends evil against it, Allah will melt him as salt melts in water.’”’

Muslim recorded it (1) through Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim, from Ḥajjāj.