Ahmad ibn al-Muqarrab, ʿAbd Allah al-Tamādhi, Kamāl, daughter of the hadith scholar ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Samarqandi, Tarkanāz, daughter of ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Dāmghānī, Shuhda, daughter (1) of al-Ibari, Nafīsa the cloth-seller, Tajannī al-Wahbāniyya, and many others besides.

Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara said, “He is an illiterate man, yet his audition is sound and of lofty isnād. He was poor but dignified, descended from a family of learning; he worked as an attendant in a bathhouse in al-Karkh. He related to us from Abū l-Hasan ibn Rizqawayh.”

I (the author) add: He also transmits from Abū l-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān and Abū l-Hasan al-Hammāmī.

Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī said, “His audition is reliable, but he lacks knowledge and understanding; I heard from him (2).”

Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAbdarī remarked, “He is a layman, illiterate, and a Rāfiḍī. It is unlawful to transmit a single letter from him, for he does not know what is being read to him (3).”

Al-Samʿānī stated, “I asked Ismāʿīl the ḥāfiẓ in Isfahān about him, and he replied, ‘He is descended from hadith scholars and has heard a great deal.’ I then questioned Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān, who said, ‘I do not narrate from him; he never understood what was being read to him (4).’”

I heard ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī say, “Abū l-Ghanāʾim ibn Abī ʿUthmān directed us to him, so we went to see him. I read to him a fascicle that contained his own name and asked him, ‘Do you have…’