He heard from Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, Abū Muḥammad ibn Māsī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zabībī, the ḥadith master Abū al-Fatḥ al-Azdī of Mosul, Ibn Bakhīt al-Daqqāq, Isḥāq ibn Saʿd al-Nasawī, and several others.
He excelled in the Ḥanbalī school and maintained a session for issuing legal rulings.
Among those who transmitted from him were: Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Shaybānī; Abū Ṭālib al-Yūsufī; his cousin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad; Abū al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn al-Mukhtār; Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Naqqūr; Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kharazī; Mubārak ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sadanak; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Mubārak al-Wiqāyātī; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Mubārak al-Dawwātī; Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Farrāʾ; Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṭabar; Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Mahdī; the judge Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī; and others.
Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “I wrote down [hadith] from him; he was truthful, devout, a jurist following the school of Aḥmad, and he conducted a circle for fatwa. He died on the Day of Tarwiyah, in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 445 AH.”
I say: he was a man of asceticism and righteousness, thoroughly versed in the laws of inheritance.
He studied jurisprudence under Ibn Baṭṭah and Ibn Ḥāmid, and he possessed an authorisation from Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ghulām al-Khallāl.
His son Aḥmad died twenty-three years after him.
He also narrated from Ibn Abī al-Fawāris.