He heard from Abū Aḥmad al-Faraḍī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣalt, Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Bayyiʿ, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Bishrān, and their contemporaries.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb compiled from his narrations five well-known fascicles, and Ibn Khayrūn compiled three; none of these have reached me. He was counted among the trustworthy transmitters.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Bakr, the judge of the Maristan; Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb al-Hamadhānī; Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarqandī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Qazzāz; Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ; Abū al-Faḍl al-Umawī; and others.
He died on 14 Dhu al-Ḥijjah 468 AH, in his nineties, and was buried at the gate of the Zawzanī ribāṭ.
In the same year passed away: Imām Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Qubays al-Ghassānī, al-Dārānī, the Damascene Mālikī—his first audition having taken place at Darayya in 402 AH; Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā al-Ghandajānī (1); the Qurʾān-reader of Wāsiṭ, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qāsim Ghulām al-Harrās, who was a little over ninety; Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Burza al-Jawharī, the preacher; Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī, the merchant of Nīshāpūr (2); the exegete Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Wāḥidī (3); Imām Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaddā al-ʿUkbarī al-Ḥanbalī (4); Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlīk al-Nīshāpūrī (5); and Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Bajali.