ibn Ibrāhīm al-Daybulī (1); Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Rayyān al-Lukkī, the Egyptian (2); Fārūq al-Khaṭṭābī; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿAbbād al-Tammār; and a number of others.
He produced a Muʿjam in two fascicles, which ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ṭufayl transmits from al-Silafī.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Ṣādiq Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar; the ḥadith scholar Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Mardawayh; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Saylaqī; Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Simsār; ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan ibn Sulaym; ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl al-Yazdī; al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaddād, together with his brother Abū al-Fath; Faḍlān ibn ʿUthmān al-Qaysī; and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Fursānī (3). These were among al-Silafī’s shaykhs.
Abū Nuʿaym (4) said: “He attended and narrated for sixty years, heard ḥadith in Mecca, Basra, Ahwāz and Rayy, compiled and authored works, and was of pleasant character and sound doctrine.”
He died on the first day of Shaʿbān in 419 AH.
I add: seven of his majālis have reached us (5).