and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Baladi; Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hasnun al-Narsi (1); Abu al-Qasim al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Mundhir; al-Husayn ibn ʿUmar ibn Barhan; Abu al-Hasan ibn Razquwayh; Abu al-Fath Hilal ibn Muhammad al-Haffar; Abu al-Fath ibn Abi al-Fawaris; Abu al-ʿAlaʾ Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Warraq; and Abu al-Husayn ibn Bishran.
He would even humble himself to the point of writing hadith from ʿAbd al-Samad ibn al-Maʾmun and Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Naqqur; indeed, he went so far as to narrate from his own pupils—Nasr al-Maqdisi, Ibn Makula, and al-Humaydi. Such, after all, is the custom of every ḥāfiẓ who relates from both the senior and the junior transmitters.
He heard in ʿUkbara from al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Saʾigh, who reported to him from Nafila (2) ʿAli ibn Harb.
In Basra he caught up with his teacher in the Sunan, Abu ʿUmar al-Hashimi (3); with ʿAli ibn al-Qasim al-Shahid; with al-Hasan ibn ʿAli al-Saburi (4); and with a number of others.
In Nishapur he heard from the judge Abu Bakr al-Hayri; Abu Saʿid al-Sayrafi; Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sarraj; ʿAli ibn Muhammad al-Tirazi; the memorizer Abu Hazim al-ʿAbdawi; and many more.
And in Isfahan he heard from Abu al-Hasan ibn ʿAbdkuwayh; Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Jammal; and Muhammad—