—ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Shahriyar, and the ḥadith master Abu Nuʿaym.
In Dinawar he heard from Abu Nasr al-Kassār; in Hamadhān he received narrations from Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā and others of his tier. He likewise collected ḥadith in Rayy, Kūfa, Tyre, Damascus, and Mecca.
His first arrival in Damascus was in the year 445 AH, where he studied under Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr al-Tamīmī and his contemporaries. He settled in Damascus, performed the pilgrimage from there, and during the pilgrimage season read Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī to Karīma (1).
The loftiest chains in his possession were those of Mālik and Ḥammād ibn Zayd, with only three transmitters between him and each of them.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Bakr al-Barqānī—who was, in fact, one of his own teachers—Abū Naṣr ibn Mā kūlā, the jurist Naṣr, al-Ḥumaydī, Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn, al-Mubārak ibn al-Ṭuyūrī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Khāḍiba, Ubayy al-Narsī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Samarqandī, al-Murtaḍā Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad ibn Marzūq al-Zaʿfarānī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb, Hibat Allah ibn al-Akfānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maṣṣīṣī, Ghayth ibn ʿAlī al-Armanāzī, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Mutawakkilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Mujallī, Hibat Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Shurūṭī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd, Ṭāhir ibn Sahl al-Isfarāyinī, Barakāt al-Najjād, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamza, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Qubays al-Mālikī, Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Maṣṣīṣī, the Maristān judge Abū Bakr, and Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn—