and I returned to al-Andalus in Dhu al-Qaʿdah of the year 399. In 403 I set out for the frontier region and lived in Zaragoza for seven years, after which I went back to Córdoba. He said: I reached Daniyah in 417 (1).
I (the compiler) say: he remained there until his death.
He heard ḥadith from Abu Muslim Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kātib—the associate of al-Baghawī and his senior-most shaykh; from Aḥmad ibn Firās al-Makkī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUthmān al-Qushayrī the ascetic; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar ibn Khuwastā (2) al-Fārisī, who had settled in al-Andalus; Khalaf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Khāqān al-Miṣrī, to both of whom he also recited the Qur’an; Ḥātim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bazzāz; Aḥmad ibn Fath ibn al-Rassān; Muḥammad ibn Khalīfah ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār; Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Jīzī; Salamah ibn Saʿīd al-Imām; Salmūn ibn Dāʾūd al-Qarawī (3); Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās al-Miṣrī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Bashīr al-Rabʿī; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ibn Munīr; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā al-Andalusī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zamanīn; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qābisī, and a number of others.
He likewise recited to Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭāhir ibn Ghalbūn and to Abū al-Fath Fāris ibn Aḥmad al-Ḍarīr.
He learned the Seven canonical readings as transmitted by Ibn Mujāhid (4) from Abū Muslim al-Kātib.