Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Samʿānī, and ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Asad in his Muʿjam.
He was counted among the scholars of ḥadīth.
He was born in 492 AH.
Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī said: “The ascetic shaykh and ḥāfiẓ Ḥāmid al-Madīnī passed away in Yazdashīr, Kirmān, in Shaʿbān 549 AH.”
199 – al-Khaṭīr, Khaṭīr al-Dawla Abū ʿAbd Allāh*
The scribe, senior administrator, and brilliant man of letters, Khaṭīr al-Dawla Abū ʿAbd Allāh, held the post of intelligence officer in the Dīwān al-Zimām (1); he had an extensive mastery of both prose (2) and poetry (3).
He composed fifty maqāmas (rhymed-prose sessions) (4).
He narrated from Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Yūsufī,
and he studied under Abū Zakariyyā al-Tibrīzī.
Those who heard from him include Ibn al-Khashshāb and Aḥmad ibn Ṭāriq.