and from Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad; Ibn Rajāʾ al-Adīb; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Shādhiyākhī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muzāḥim al-Ṣaffār; Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Fāmī; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī, the jurist; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Muʿāwiyah al-ʿAṭṭār; Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sūsī; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, the exegete; Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdān; Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṣuʿlūkī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Mihrajānī (1); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥāmid, the Qurʾān-reciter; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Bālawayh; ʿUbayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Mahdī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Isfarāʾīnī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Subʿī; ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Ṭahmānī; Manṣūr ibn al-Ḥusayn, the Qurʾān-reciter; and Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī. These twenty were among the companions of al-Aṣamm (2).

He also heard, in Baghdad, from Hilāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ḥaffār, ʿAlī ibn Yaʿqūb al-Iyādī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, and others of their rank.

In Mecca he received narrations from al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Firās and others.

In Kūfa he heard from Jināḥ ibn Nadhīr the judge and a number of others.

Allāh blessed his knowledge, and he produced a range of useful writings. He did not own Sunan al-Nasāʾī, Sunan Ibn Mājah, or the collection of Abū ʿĪsā; what he did possess from al-Ḥākim amounted to a camel-load or thereabouts. He had a high-level transmission of Sunan Abī Dāwūd, and he studied law under Nāṣir al-ʿUmarī and others.

He then withdrew to his village, dedicating himself to collection and authorship, and there he composed the major work al-Sunan al-Kabīr in