Those who narrated from him include the ḥadith master Abū Naṣr al-Sijzī, the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī, the judge Muḥammad ibn Salāmah al-Quḍāʿī, Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥabbāl, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khilaʿī, and others.

Al-Sijzī selected numerous fascicles from his transmissions, and al-Ḥabbāl spoke well of him. He was a man of learning and discernment, and I possess some of his high-isnād material.

Al-Ḥabbāl said: “He died in Ṣafar of the year 415 AH.”

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿImād informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rifāʿah informed us; the judge ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥājj informed us; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Saqqāṭī in Baṣrah narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us; ʿAffān narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Ziyād—who heard it from Abū Hurayrah—reported:

From the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “Does not one of you fear that, if he raises his head before the imam, Allah may turn his head into the head of a donkey or his face into the face of a donkey?” ⦗1⦘

In that same year died: Abū al-Faraj Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Muslimah ⦗2⦘; the leading Shāfiʿī jurist Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Maḥāmilī ⦗3⦘; the judge ʿAbd al-Jabbār ⦗4⦘, the head of the Muʿtazilites; and Abū al-Ḥasan