Khallād al-Naṣībī (1); Abū ʿAlī b. al-Ṣawwāf (2); Abū Baḥr b. Kawthar al-Barbahārī (3); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-ʿAbbās, father of al-Mukhlis; ʿĪsā b. Muḥammad al-Ṭūmārī (4); Makhlad b. Jaʿfar al-Daqīqī; Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, together with their contemporaries in Baghdad; Ḥabīb b. al-Ḥasan al-Qazzāz; Fārūq b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Khaṭṭābī; ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar b. Isḥāq al-Jābirī; Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Qāsim b. al-Rayyān al-Lukkī; Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muslim al-ʿĀmirī, and their cohort in Basra; Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī al-ʿAzāʾim; Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh b. Yaḥyā al-Ṭalḥī, along with a number of others in Kūfa; as well as Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥamdān, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, Ḥusaynak al-Tamīmī (5), and many more in Nīshāpūr; Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Kindī; Abū Bakr al-Ājurrī, and others besides them in Mecca.
He also compiled the Muʿjam of his teachers, the book al-Ḥilya, and al-Mustakhraj.