and from Ibn Sufyān he obtained the Muwaṭṭaʾ of Ibn Wahb in the transmission that runs through Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, then Ibn Waḍḍāḥ, then Sahnūn and others.
He also heard from Saʿīd ibn Naṣr—the freedman of the caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh—the Muwaṭṭaʾ and the hadith collection of Wakīʿ, which Saʿīd narrated from Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, from al-Qaṣṣār, from Wakīʿ.
In 390 AH he heard from that same teacher the book al-Mushkil (1) by Ibn Qutaybah, and he recited to him the Musnad of al-Ḥumaydī together with other works.
He received the Mudawwana from Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Jusūr.
He also heard, from the ḥāfiẓ Khalaf ibn al-Qāsim ibn Sahl, the compilations of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, and he took narration from al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaʿqūb al-Bajjānī.
He read before ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid al-Wahrānī the Muwaṭṭaʾ of Ibn al-Qāsim; he recited various materials to Abū ʿUmar al-Ṭalamankī; and before the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Walīd ibn al-Faraḍī he read the Musnad of Mālik.
Among the teachers from whom he also heard are: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Wajh al-Janna, Muḥammad ibn Rashīq al-Muktib (2), Abū al-Muṭarrif ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Marwān al-Qanāzʿī, Aḥmad ibn Fatḥ ibn al-Rassān, Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bājī, Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Makwī, Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Tāhartī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Asad al-Juhanī, Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Ḥusayn ibn Nābil, Muḥammad ibn Khalīfa al-Imām, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him included: Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥazm, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Dilhāth al-Dilāʾī, Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Quḥāfa, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Mufawwaz, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥumaydī, Abū Baḥr Sufyān ibn al-ʿĀṣ, Muḥammad ibn Futūḥ al-Anṣārī, Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Abī al-Qāsim Najāḥ, and Abū