al-Ṭabarī, together with a number of others.
In Egypt he listened to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khalʿī, Abū Isḥāq al-Habbāl, and several more.
In Baghdad he heard from Abū Muḥammad al-Ṣarīfīnī, Ibn al-Naqqūr, ʿAlī ibn al-Buṣrī, and a host of scholars.
In Damascus: Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ and others.
In Isfahān: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Abī ʿAbd Allah ibn Mandah, and their peers.
In Jurjān: Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿadah al-Ismāʿīlī.
In Jerusalem: the jurist Naṣr.
In Nishapur: al-Faḍl ibn al-Muḥibb and his circle.
In Herat: Muḥammad ibn Abī Masʿūd al-Fārisī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAfīf Kulār, and a number of others.
In Marw: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mihrabandqshāyī.
In Alexandria: al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣafrawī.
In Tinnīs: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥaddād, who narrated to him from his grandfather, from al-Washshāʾ, from ʿĪsā Zughbah.
In Aleppo: al-Ḥasan ibn Makkī.
In the Jazīrah: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-Yamanī, a disciple of Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī.
In Āmid: Qāsim ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣfahānī al-Khayyāṭ, who transmitted to him from Ibn Jishnas, from Ibn Ṣāʿid.
In Istarābādh: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥafṣī.
In Basra: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shaghbah.
In Dīnawar: Ibn ʿAbbād.
In Rayy: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī.
In Sarakhs: Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar.
In Shīrāz: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Shurūṭī.
In Qazwīn: Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿIjlī.
In Kūfa: Abū al-Qāsim Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad.
In Mosul: Hibat Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Muqriʾ.
Likewise, he collected hadith in Marw al-Rūdh, Sāwa, al-Raḥbah, al-Anbār, Ahwāz, Nūqān, Hamadhān, Wāsiṭ, Asadābādh, Isfarāyīn, Āmul, Bisṭām, Khusrawjird, and Ṭūs.
Those who transmitted from him include Shīrawayh ibn Shahardār; Abū Jaʿfar ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Hamadhānī; Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāzī; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī; Ibn Nāṣir; al-Silafī; Abū Zurʿah Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad; his own son; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭarasūsī; and many others besides them.