Yaqut; ʿUmar ibn Tabarzad; Zayd ibn al-Hasan al-Kindi; Muhammad ibn Abi Tammam ibn Luzzū; ʿAli ibn Habal the physician; Sulayman ibn Muhammad al-Mawsili; ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn al-Akhdar; Musa ibn Saʿid ibn al-Sayqal; and many others.

Al-Samʿani said: “I read the major compilations and the individual fascicles to him, and I heard Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-ʿAttar in Hamadhan say, ‘I would not trade Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Samarqandi for anyone among the shaykhs of Iraq and Khurasan.’” ⦗1⦘

ʿUmar al-Bistami stated, “Abu al-Qasim is the chain of transmission for Khurasan and Iraq.” ⦗2⦘

Ibn al-Samarqandi said, “No one remains who relates the Muʿjam of Ibn Jumayʿ except me—and that from ʿAbd al-Daʾim al-Hilali.” He then recited:
The marvel is that I have lived on after them,
Though none of their might was left in me.

Ibn ʿAsakir commented: “He was trustworthy, prolific, the owner of foundational works, and a broker of books. I heard him say, ‘I am the Abū Hurayrah when it comes to Ibn al-Naqqūr.’” ⦗3⦘

Ibn ʿAsakir also observed: “He lived on until Baghdad was virtually emptied of scholars, and he became its chief hadith lecturer in both abundance and chains. Eventually he began to request payment for public audition, despite his earlier eagerness to teach. He dictated in the Manṣur Mosque more than three hundred sessions. He also enjoyed good fortune in the book trade; once he sold the two Ṣaḥīḥs—al-Bukhari and Muslim—bound together in a delicate single volume penned in the hand of al-Suri.” ⦗4⦘