He was the last person to relate traditions from Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ and from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣaffār. He also heard ḥadīth from Abū Bakr ibn Rīdhah, Abū al-Wafāʾ Mahdī ibn Muḥammad, ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Muʿtazz, and others.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Silafī, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-Karrānī, ʿAfīfah al-Fārfāniyyah, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Muṭahhar, and many more. Present at his sessions were Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī and Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣaydilānī, and his audition from Abū Nuʿaym was a first-hand hearing. ⦗1⦘

He died on 12 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 518 AH, at a little over ninety years of age.

276 – al-Murattib, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad *

The imam Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, the oil-seller, known as al-Murattib. He arranged the prayer rows in the Manṣūr Mosque, kept historical notes, and engaged in scholarly discussions, even though he was illiterate.

He heard ḥadīth from Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn al-Maʾmūn and from Ibn al-Muhtadī billāh, and he associated with Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Shibl.