al-Khaṣīb; Abū al-Fawāris Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣābūnī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ward—from whom he heard the Prophetic Sīrah; al-Ḥasan ibn Marwān al-Qaysarānī; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Khayyāsh; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus al-Ṣadafī; al-Faḍl ibn Wahb; Muḥammad ibn Wardān al-ʿĀmirī; Fāṭimah daughter of al-Rayyān; and several others.
He compiled a Mishyakha (list of shaykhs) in two volumes.
Among those who transmitted from him were: al-Ṣūrī; Abū Naṣr al-Sijzī; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Bukhārī; Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī; Aḥmad ibn Abī Naṣr al-Kūfānī (1) known as Kākū; Khalaf ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥawfī; the judge Muḥammad ibn Salāmah al-Quḍāʿī; al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAddās; Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥabbāl; the judge Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khilāʿī; and many others.
Al-Khaṭīb had intended to travel to see him, but the plan was never realised.
Al-Ḥabbāl reported: He died on the tenth of Ṣafar in 416 AH.
In the same year there also passed away: al-Khaṣīb (2) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Khaṣīb in Egypt; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jānjan in Hamadhān; the foremost poet of the time, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Tihāmī (3); Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dārānī the cotton-merchant; Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr al-Maʿdānī, Abū Bakr; and al-Faḍl ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Shahriyār (4).