and, later in his middle age, he also heard hadith from Abu Muhammad ibn ʿAttab and a number of other scholars.
Those who transmitted from him include his own son—the judge ʿAbd al-Haqq ibn Muhammad—together with Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Baqi and others.
He passed away not long before 560 AH.

Abu Muhammad ibn Harun wrote to us from Tunis in 700 AH, saying: “I learned the Muwattaʾ from Ibn Baqi, who told me that Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Haqq had conveyed it to him by direct audition from al-Talaʿiʿi.”

279 – al-Harastani, Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAli *
The shaykh Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Qurashi, known as al-Harastani, originally from Damascus and nicknamed al-Bustani, was the transmitter of the booklet of al-Rafaqi. He heard that text in 480 AH from Abu ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi al-Hadid.
When he once saw a group of students setting off to a village to hear hadith, he drew their attention to his own certificate of audition, saying, “I have not forgotten Ibn Abi al-Hadid—he came, we heard from him, and I have preserved this ‘walnut’ for you.” The students then entered and dug out his written certificate.

Those who narrated from him include Ibn ʿAsakir, his son, Mahmud ibn Shutay, Abu al-Qasim ibn Sasra, Ibn Ghassan, Mukram, and Karima.
He died in Shawwal 561 AH, a little over ninety years old.