He would often travel for trade, possessed a large corpus of source-materials, was well-versed in hadith and quick of understanding, and a group of scholars declared him reliable.
Those who narrated from him include: Yaḥyā ibn Shirāʿah, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad al-Hamdānī the preacher, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, Ẓarīf al-Nīsābūrī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad the merchant, the ḥāfiẓ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir, and others.
He died in Bukhara in Muḥarram of the year 449 AH.
Yaḥyā ibn Mandah said: “He was trustworthy, a merchant, owner of many books, and knowledgeable in hadith.”
In that same year there also died: Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Sulaymān al-Tanūkhī al-Maʿarrī (1), the author of numerous works; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Aṣbahānī the goldsmith; Shaykh al-Islām Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī (2); the commentator on the Ṣaḥīḥ, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Khalaf ibn Baṭṭāl al-Qurṭubī (3); the Qurʾān reciter Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khabbāzī al-Nīsābūrī (4); and the leading Imāmī scholar Abū al-Fatḥ al-Karājikī, a Rāfiḍī (5).