al-Kattānī, al-Mukhalliṣ, ʿĪsā ibn al-Wazīr, Idrīs ibn ʿAlī, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Mālikī al-Qaṣṣār, and a number of others.

His mashyakha—a register of his teachers—has been transmitted in two fascicles.

Those who narrated from him were al-Khaṭīb, al-Ḥumaydī, Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī, Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān al-Turkī, the muftī Yūsuf ibn ʿAlī al-Zanjānī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fāriqī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Faraḍī, Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb al-Hamadhānī, the judge Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Urmawī, Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz, and many others.

Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “He was trustworthy and distinguished; he served as judge in Madīnat al-Manṣūr. His devotion and righteousness became so famous that he was called ‘the monk of Banū Hāshim.’ I wrote hadith from him.”

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “Abū al-Ḥusayn carried off the prize in every virtue—intellect, knowledge, religion, resolve, piety, and sound judgment. He possessed lofty chains of transmission, and people traveled to him from distant lands. Late in life his hearing weakened, so he would read the material himself despite his advanced age. He was reliable, authoritative, distinguished, and prolific.”

Ubayy al-Narsī said: “He was trustworthy and would read to the people, though one of his eyes had been lost (2).”

Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn said: “He fasted perpetually and lived ascetically. He was the last to relate from al-Dāraquṭnī and Ibn Dūst. Meticulous and exacting (3), most of his auditions…"