Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī (1); Maḥmūd al-Zamakhsharī, the Muʿtazilite (2); Ibn Nāṣir; ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī; Ibn al-Baṭṭī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Bājisrāʾī; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sakan; Ḥudhayfah (3) ibn al-Hāṭarā; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bārizī; Aḥmad ibn al-Muqarrab; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭāmidhī; al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad al-Bādarāʾī (4); Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī; Shuhdah; the preacher of Mosul; and many others.
Ibn Sukkara said: “A shaykh, obscure in standing, yet trustworthy.”
al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī reported to us, saying: Jaʿfar al-Hamdānī related, and Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī related: “I asked Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī about Ibn al-Baṭir. He replied, ‘His condition was acceptable, gentle in transmission.’ I pressed him on that and said, ‘We have noticed none of what you mention. Nothing that was read to him is open to doubt, and the sessions he attended are as clear as the sun.’ He answered, ‘Indeed—by my life—it is as you say, except that I found, in part of a copy he possessed, an audition that the heart testifies is void; and none of that was ever carried from him.’ ”
Abū al-Muẓaffar said in Mirʾāt al-Zamān: “Ibn al-Baṭir was in charge of the water-wheels…"