Among those who narrated from him were: Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir, ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Ismāʿīl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Farāwī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zāhir, Abū al-Asʿad Hibat al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qushayrī, Muḥammad ibn Jāmiʿ al-Ṣawwāf, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥasan al-Kātib, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Shahhāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā al-Nāṣiḥī, his brother Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā, and a large number of others.

ʿAbd al-Ghāfir said: “He heard the senior shaykhs and leading authorities, attained elevated chains of transmission, witnessed the major events, and was pleasant in companionship and social dealings.”

He then added: “He passed away in Ṣafar of the year 481 AH.”

I say: It has been said that he was ʿUthmānī, and Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir the ḥāfiẓ received authorisation (ijāzah) from him and transmitted on his authority.

Those who also died in that same year were: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ghūrājī (1); Shaykh al-Islām al-Anṣārī (2); Abū Bakr ibn Mājah al-Abharī (3); the vizier Muḥammad ibn Hishām al-Muṣḥafī in Córdoba; and Ḥiṣn al-Dawlah Muʿallā ibn Ḥaydara al-Kutamī (4), who had seized control of Damascus.

301 – al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Ibrāhīm ibn Masʿūd, son of the sultan Maḥmūd ibn Subuktakīn * ruler of Ghazna and India.