al-Raḥmān al-Zuhrī; al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Fahd al-Mawṣilī; Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar; and several others.

He also studied in Damascus under Tammām al-Rāzī, and in Egypt under ʿAbd al-Ghanī. He collected, classified, and wrote prolifically.

Among those who transmitted from him were his son Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad al-Shayḥī, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Aʿlāʾ al-Maṣṣīṣī, al-Mubārak ibn al-Ṭuyūrī, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mahdī, and others.

Al-Khaṭīb says about him: “Aḥmad ibn Abī Jaʿfar al-Qaṭīʿī informed us (1) and added (2):

‘He was truthful. He was born at the beginning of the year 367 AH. He told me that one of his forefathers was called ʿAtīq, and that is the source of his family nisbah.’ ”

Ibn Mākūlā relates: “Our shaykh al-ʿAtīqī told me that he was originally from Rūyān. He produced an edition of the two Ṣaḥīḥs, was reliable and exacting, and fully understood the material in his possession (3).”

Al-Khaṭīb also says (4): “He died in Ṣafar of the year 441 AH.”

I remark: Portions of his narrations have reached me, and he compiled notices of deaths in a sizeable volume.