al-Fārisi; and he heard the Juzʾ of Ibn Nujayd from ʿUmar ibn Masrūr al-Zāhid. He also received transmissions from Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī, as well as from Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khabbāzī; Abū Yaʿlā Isḥāq al-Ṣābūnī; Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Maghribī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūsī; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azharī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī; Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khashshāb; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-ʿAdawī al-Harawī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī al-Tājir; Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Tūsī—known as al-Ḥākim; ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī; Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿadah ibn al-Ismāʿīlī; Ismāʿīl ibn Zāhir; Abū ʿĀmir Maḥmūd ibn al-Qāsim al-Azdī; Imām al-Ḥaramayn Abū al-Maʿālī; Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī; the qāḍī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasawī; the amir Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad al-Mīkālī; and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Laḥsānī.

He studied Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī with Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-ʿAyyār and with Abū Sahl al-Ḥafṣī.

He likewise received from Abū ʿUthmān al-Baḥīrī, the shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, and a number of others.

In Baghdad he learned from Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī, and he alone possessed complete auditions of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Ṣifāt (the Divine Names and Attributes), Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah (Proofs of Prophethood), al-Daʿawāt al-Kabīr (the Major Collection of Supplications), and al-Baʿth (The Resurrection), all by al-Bayhaqī.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He was an imām, a mufti, a debater and preacher—of fine character and pleasant company, hospitable to strangers. Among my teachers I never saw his like. He was generous and often smiling.”

I say: Those who narrated from him include Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, Yūsuf ibn Ādam, and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ