He studied the great collected works with Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Mudhhib, Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī, Abū Bakr ibn Bishrān, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī and a number of others, and in his own time he stood unrivalled.
Those who narrated from him include al-Silafī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār, Hibat Allāh al-Ṣāʾin, Abū Bakr ibn al-Naqqūr, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Daqqāq, Yaḥyā ibn Bawsh and many others.
Al-Samʿānī said: “A righteous shaykh, trustworthy and devout, meticulous in transmission and widely travelled in his quest for knowledge. His narrations spread across the lands and many people carried them from him.”
Al-Silafī remarked: “Abu Ṭālib was brought up on his father’s path of total scrupulousness in religion—piety without affectation. He was complete in virtue, of pleasing bearing, utterly trustworthy and exacting to the highest degree; seldom have I seen his like. His father, Abū Bakr, was the most ascetic of Allah’s creation.”
Muḥammad ibn ʿAṭṭāf said: “Abu Ṭālib passed away at the end of Friday, the eighteenth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah, in the year 516 AH.”
229 – Ibn al-Fahhām ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAtīq ibn Khalaf al-Qurashī*
The Imām, shaykh of the Qur’an reciters, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr ʿAtīq ibn Khalaf