He heard hadith from Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraqutnī, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Sukkarī, Abū Naṣr al-Malāḥimī, his grandfather Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Maʾmūn, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ḥabābah, and a number of others.

Those who transmitted from him to us include Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb al-Hamadhānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī the specialist in inheritance law, Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz, and others besides them.

Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “He was truthful, and I wrote hadith from him.”

Al-Samʿānī relates: “I asked the ḥāfiẓ (hadith master) Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad about Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn al-Maʾmūn, and he replied, ‘A noble and dignified man, trustworthy, and possessed of extensive audition.’”

ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Maʾmūn said: “My brother Abū al-Ghanāʾim was born in 376 AH.” (2)

Others said that he was born in 374 AH.

I add: Among those who narrated from him were al-Ḥumaydī, Ubayy al-Narsī, Aḥmad ibn Ẓafar, Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Bayḍāwī, and Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Urmawī.

After them, Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Thaqafī reported from him by written authorization, but it later became clear that this was unfounded, so he withdrew the transmission.

He died on the seventeenth of Shawwāl, 465 AH.

108 – al-Dāwūdī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar *
The Imām, the erudite scholar, the scrupulous exemplar, the ornament of Islam, the leading transmitter of his time, Abū