In Baghdad, when he first arrived, he heard ḥadith from Aḥmad b. Naṣr al-Dhāriʿ and his contemporaries; in Jurjān from Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī and Abū Aḥmad b. al-Ghitrīf; and in Isfahan from Abū Bakr b. al-Muqriʾ and a number of others.
He likewise studied in Damascus under Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Khallāl and others, and in Balkh, Antioch, and the surrounding regions. The leading ḥadith scholars approved the material he had selected, and I have found no fault in him.
The ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir mentioned him briefly, while Abū ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Najjār knew him personally and recorded that the following narrated from him: Hannād b. Ibrāhīm al-Nasafī; Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Māmā, the ḥāfiẓ; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. Ibrāhīm al-Bukhārī, the ḥāfiẓ; Aḥmad b. al-Faḍl al-Bāṭirqānī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAṭṭār; and others.
He settled in Bukhārā toward the end of his life, and was renowned for his insight and learning. He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 415 AH, and, to the best of my knowledge, was in his seventies.
244 – Ibn Fanjawayh, al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn
The shaykh, imām, muhaddith, teacher, and last of the senior masters: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṣāliḥ b. Shuʿayb b. Fanjawayh al-Thaqafī, al-Dīnawarī.
He transmitted from Hārūn al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū ʿAlī b. Ḥabash; Abū Bakr b. al-Sunnī; Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī; ʿĪsā b. Ḥāmid al-Rukhkhajī (1); Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar b. Ḥamdān al-Dīnawarī; Isḥāq b. Muḥammad al-Niʿālī; and many others.