and many others besides. He then journeyed on; in Basra he heard ḥadīth from Abū ʿAlī al-Shāmūkhī and others, amassed large collections, produced written compilations, and listened to a quantity beyond description.

Those who narrated from him include: Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī; Ibn Nāṣir; ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī; Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Sinjī; Abū Bakr ibn al-Samʿānī; Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥulwānī al-Marwazī; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī; Abū Bakr ibn al-Naqqūr; ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Yūsuf; the preacher of Mosul; Abū al-Saʿādāt al-Qazzāz; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī, the naqīb; and a great many others.

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He was a prolific traditionist, righteous, trustworthy, and truthful, with sound originals. He was chaste, God-fearing, dignified, of good appearance, and abundant in charity. He wrote extensively, the people benefited from his teaching, and Allah allowed him to profit from what he had heard until transmission from him spread widely. He became the foremost Baghdadi in the amount he had heard; my father narrated from him in great quantity. Al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī accused him openly of fabrication, but I never saw any of our reliable shaykhs agree with al-Muʾtaman. I asked ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and Ibn Nāṣir, and they spoke of him with high praise, bearing witness to his diligence, honesty, trustworthiness, and vast audition.”

I heard Salmān al-Shahhām say: “When Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Narsī arrived, we stayed away from Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī’s session for several days. When we returned, Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī asked, ‘What kept you from me?’ We replied, ‘So-and-so has arrived and we have been listening to him.’ He said, ‘What is the finest material he possesses?’ We answered, ‘The ḥadīth of al-Bakkāʾī.’ The shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn thereupon rose, brought out a roll (1) of al-Bakkāʾī’s ḥadīth, and said, ‘This is my audition from Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Ṭanājīrī on his authority.’”

Al-Samʿānī added, “And I think I heard that very collection from Ibn Nāṣir as well.”