Among those from whom he heard hadith were his father, Mansūr ibn Isḥāq, and Sahl ibn Rabīʿa.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Nāṣir, Shuhda, and Ibn al-Khall.
He passed away in Āmul at the beginning of the year 501 AH.
In that same year there also died: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAmr al-Baḥīrī, the hadith scholar (1); the ruler of Ifrīqiya, Tamīm ibn al-Muʿizz ibn Bādis; Abū ʿAlī al-Takkakī (2); Abū Muḥammad al-Dūnī (3); Abū Saʿd al-Asadī; and the governor of al-Ḥilla, Sayf al-Dawla Ṣadaqa ibn Manṣūr ibn Dubays al-Asadī (4), who was killed.
135 – Ibn Bishruwayh, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, eminent teacher, and trustworthy authority: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Bishruwayh al-Iṣbahānī.
He said, “I was born in the year 415 AH.”
He heard hadith from Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥasnakūyah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muṣʿab the merchant, al-Haytham ibn Muḥammad al-Kharrāṭ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Shahriyār, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, Abū Dharr al-Ṣāliḥānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Jallāb, and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs, Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī, and several others.