Those who narrated from him include al-Khatib, al-Humaydi, Ibn al-Khadibah (1), Muhammad ibn Tahir, Muʾtaman al-Saji, al-Husayn Sibt al-Khayyat, Ismaʿil ibn al-Samarkandi, ʿUmar ibn Ibrahim al-Zaydi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Sirma, Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn ʿUmar al-Ghazi, Abu Nasr Ibrahim ibn al-Fadl al-Bar, Abu al-Badr Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Karkhi, Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn ʿUmar al-Urmuwi, and Abu al-Fath ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Baydawi.
Al-Khatib (2) said, “He was truthful.”
Ibn Khayrun remarked, “Reliable.”
Al-Husayn Sibt al-Khayyat reported: “Whenever anyone began to speak in Ibn al-Naqqur’s gathering, he would tell the name-recorder, ‘Do not write him down.’”
Abu al-Hasan ibn ʿAbd al-Salam said: “Abu Muhammad al-Tamimi used to attend Ibn al-Naqqur’s sessions and listen to him, saying, ‘The hadith of Ibn al-Naqqur is a bar of pure gold.’”
He used to charge one dinar for a copy of the Ṭalut ibn ʿAbbad recension (3).
Al-Hafiz Ibn Nasir commented, “He only resorted to that because Shaykh Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi issued him a fatwa permitting it. The hadith folk had prevented him from earning a living for his dependants, and he likewise forbade anyone to make a copy while the reading was in progress (4).”
Abu ʿAli al-Hasan ibn Masʿud al-Dimashqi said, “Ibn al-Naqqur would charge for a single juzʾ…"