Ḥibbān, as well as from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Farwah, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kilābī, Aḥmad ibn ʿUtbah ibn Makīn, and a number of others.

He perfected his Qurʾān recitation under Imām ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Dārānī and ʿAlī ibn Zuhayr.

Those who narrated from him include the ḥadith master Abū Saʿd al-Sammān, al-Kattānī, Najā ibn Aḥmad, al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, and others.

He collected traditions and composed works.

He died in Ṣafar of the year 436 AH, at the age of seventy-three.

Al-Kattānī said, “He had memorised Gharīb al-Ḥadīth by Abū ʿUbayd and knew one thousand ḥadiths with their chains from the narrations of Ibn Jawṣāʾ. He was reliable and trustworthy, and the mantle of leadership in the Syrian mode of recitation ultimately rested with him.” (1)

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us, al-Muʾayyad ibn Muḥammad related to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Sulamī, who said: My grandfather narrated to us, saying: al-Rabaʿī narrated to us, saying: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kindī narrated to us, saying: al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Khalīl of Ḥimṣ narrated to us, saying: Naṣr ibn Khuzaymah narrated to us, saying: my father told me, from Naṣr ibn ʿAlqamah, from his brother Maḥfūẓ ibn ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀʾidh, who said: Jubayr ibn Nufayr told me that ʿAwf ibn Mālik said:

The Prophet ﷺ said: “The prophets will vie with one another in the size of their communities, except Moses; yet I hope to surpass him. He was granted certain distinctions: he remained in intimate discourse with his Lord for forty days; it is not proper for two people engaged in private conversation to exceed that period; and he will not swoon with the rest of humankind.” (2)