He ‑ meaning al-Samʿānī ‑ said: “A shaykh of upright religion, virtuous and righteous, a custodian of the Book of Allah, thoroughly versed in the variant transmissions and modes of recitation, exemplary in conduct, strict yet skillful with students, and endowed with lofty chains of narration.”

I add: He himself recited to Rizq Allah, ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn ʿAttāb, Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad al-Sībī, the sharif ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Makkī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qayrawānī, Abū al-Barakāt al-Wakīl, Aḥmad ibn Mubārak al-Akfānī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Karmānī the ascetic—companion of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Ruhāwī—together with al-Ḥasan al-Shahrazūrī, his own father.

A great number read to him; among them were: ʿUmar ibn Bakrūnah al-Nahrawānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Kāl (1) al-Ḥillī, Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣarṣarī, Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamzah ibn al-Qubbaīṭī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Sulṭān, Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Awānī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀqūlī, Zāhir ibn Rustum, imam of the Maqām, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Nāqid, Mushrif ibn ʿAlī al-Khāliṣī, the blind scholar, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī al-Dabbās, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Rāshidī, also blind, and many others.

Many of these later transmitted on his authority, as did Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Maʿālī ibn al-Bannāʾ, Asʿad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn Ṣuʿlūk, al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, and others. He also granted an ijāza to Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muqayyar.

The highest chains of transmission in the Qurʾānic readings culminated with him, for he completed a full recitation according to Qālūn with Rizq Allah, who had read to al-Ḥammāmī, and he recited the reading of Warsh to Aḥmad ibn Mubārak. He said: