Bahrām, Abū Manṣūr ibn al-Naqqūr, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥusayn, and many others.
He transmitted a great deal. His reports reach us with a lofty isnād, and he is the transmitter of Kitāb al-Ashriba by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.

441 – al-Simnānī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad
The erudite scholar, judge of Mosul: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Simnānī, a Ḥanafī.

He narrated from Naṣr al-Marjī, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraqutnī, and a number of others. He kept the company of Ibn al-Bāqillānī until he excelled in kalām (dialectical theology).

Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “I took ḥadīth from him. He was truthful, upright, a Ḥanafī who held the Ashʿarī creed, and he authored several works.”

I say: He was among the sharpest minds of the scholarly community.

Ibn Ḥazm mentioned him, saying: “He is Abū Jaʿfar al-Simnānī the blind, the most senior disciple of Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī, the foremost Ashʿarī of our time. Of his statements is the following: ‘Whoever calls Allah a body on the grounds that He carries His attributes within His very essence has grasped the correct meaning.’”