ʿĀmir under the Damascus master-reciter ʿAlī ibn Dāʾūd al-Dārānī. In Baghdad he pursued the reading with Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī and a number of other scholars.

In Mecca he heard hadith from Aḥmad ibn Firās, ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar al-Sīrawānī the ascetic, and his own father Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Bundār; in Rayy from Jaʿfar ibn Fanākī.

In Baghdad he studied under Abū al-Ḥasan al-Raffāʾ and several others; in Damascus under ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī; in Isfahan under Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda.

He also travelled to Basra, Kūfa, Ḥarrān, Shushtar, al-Ruha, Fasa, Homs, Egypt, Ramla, Nishapur, Nasā, and Gurgān, roaming the horizons for most of his life. He stood out among the people of his age in both knowledge and devotion.

Among those who transmitted from him were: al-Mustaghfirī (1) — who had also been one of his own teachers — Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ṣāliḥ the muezzin, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī, the teacher of al-Salafī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Khallāl, Abū Sahl ibn Saʿdawayh, Fāṭima bint al-Baghdādī, and many others.

While in Egypt he also met Abū Muslim the scribe (2).

ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Ismāʿīl said: “He was reliable, widely travelled, an imām in the Qurʾān readings, unique in his path. The senior scholars venerated him. He would not stay in the khānqāhs; instead he took refuge in a deserted mosque, and once people discovered his whereabouts he would move on. He never accepted anything from anyone; and whenever something came his way he preferred to pass it on to others (3).”

Yaḥyā ibn Manda said: “A number of people recited the Qurʾān to him, and he left us for—”