Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara al-Ṣadafī said, “He is the righteous and trustworthy shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn—solidly reliable, intelligent, chaste, and precise. He kept company with the leading ḥadīth masters and trained alongside them. I heard Abū Bakr ibn al-Khāḍibah say, ‘Our shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn is one whose ḥadīth is sought for healing.’

Ibn Nāṣir stated in his dictation, ‘The trustworthy, firmly reliable, truthful Abū al-Ḥusayn narrated to us.’

Al-Silafī said, ‘He was a great, beneficial, and scrupulously pious traditionist who never busied himself with anything other than ḥadīth. From the books of Qur’anic commentary, variant readings, lexicography, the musnads, histories, studies of hidden defects, belles-lettres, and poetry he amassed what no one else had ever gathered, all through direct audition. He kept company with al-Ṣūrī—benefiting from him—as well as al-Nakhshabī, and, it appears, al-Naysābūrī. (1)

Those who wrote from him include Masʿūd al-Sijzī, al-Ḥumaydī, and Jaʿfar ibn al-Ḥakkāk, and they transmitted abundantly on his authority.

The amir Abū Naṣr said, ‘Our friend Abū al-Ḥusayn, known as Ibn al-Ḥamāmī—lightly pronounced—heard ḥadīth from a great multitude, and he is among the people of virtue, chastity, and righteousness. (2)’

Ibn Sukkara said, ‘Our shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn told me that he possessed nearly one thousand fascicles in al-Dāraqutnī’s own handwriting—or I was informed of this on his authority—and he informed me that he owned eighty-four works authored by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā.

Al-Silafī selected several fascicles of uncommon and precious material from Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī. (3)