the reading of Qalun (1) in 378 AH at Ahwaz, under Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Fayruz, who received it from al-Hasan ibn al-Hubab; and that he had read to a certain shaykh whose chain went back to Abu Bakr ibn Sayf, as well as to ʿAli al-Shanabudhi (2), Abu Hafs al-Kattani, and a number of others, sometime before 390 AH.
He also heard hadith from Nasr ibn Ahmad al-Murjiʾ, a companion of Abu Yaʿla, from al-Muʿafa al-Jariri, from al-Kattani, and from several others.
At Damascus he caught up with ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Kilabi, and it is said that in Egypt he listened to Abu Muslim al-Katib. He narrated both lofty and ordinary isnads, yet his handwriting was poorly arranged. He compiled a life of Muʿawiyah and a Musnad of a dozen or so fascicles, which he stuffed with crude fabrications.
Those who recited to him included al-Hudhali (3), Ghulam al-Harrās (4), Ahmad ibn Abi al-Ashʿath al-Samarqandi, Abu al-Hasan al-Mussini, ʿAtiq al-Ridaʾi (5), Abu al-Wahsh Sabiʿ ibn Qirat, and many others.