He also received transmission from Abu Ghalib al-Baqillani, Ahmad ibn al-Muzaffar ibn Saws, Abu al-Qasim ibn Bayan, Ja‘far ibn Ahmad al-Sarraj, Abu Sa‘d ibn Khushaysh, Abu Talib al-Yusufi, and a number of other scholars.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Sam‘ani, ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali al-Qurashi, the ḥadith master ‘Abd al-Ghani, Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudamah, his two sons ‘Abd al-Razzaq and Musa, Shaykh ‘Ali ibn Idris, Ahmad ibn Muṭī‘ al-Bajisra‘i, Abu Hurayrah Muhammad ibn Layth al-Wastani, Akmal ibn Mas‘ud al-Hashimi, Abu Talib ‘Abd al-Laṭif ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qubbayṭi, and many others.

By way of formal authorisation (ijazah), al-Rashid Ahmad ibn Maslamah also transmitted from him.

Judge Taj al-Din ‘Abd al-Khaliq ibn ‘Ulwan in Baalbek informed us; Abu Muhammad ‘Abd Allah ibn Ahmad, the jurist, informed us in the year 611 AH; he said: Shaykh al-Islam ‘Abd al-Qadir ibn Abi Salih al-Jili related to us; he said: Ahmad ibn al-Muzaffar the date-seller related to us; he said: Abu ‘Ali ibn Shadhan related to us; he said: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-‘Abbas ibn Najih related to us; he said: Ya‘qub ibn Yusuf al-Qazwini narrated to us; he said: Muhammad ibn Sa‘id narrated to us; he said: ‘Amr ibn Abi Qays narrated to us, from Simak, from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Yazid, from his father, from ‘Abd Allah ibn Mas‘ud, who said:

“The Children of Israel appointed a caliph over them after Moses. He once stood praying beneath the moon above the Temple in Jerusalem, recalling certain deeds he had committed. Afterwards he left, descending by means of a rope; at dawn the rope was still hanging in the mosque while he himself had gone. He travelled until he reached some people on the seashore who were making bricks. He asked them, ‘How do you earn from these bricks?’ They explained, so he set to work alongside them and lived on the earnings of his own hands. When the time for prayer arrived he would purify himself and pray. The labourers reported this to their overseer, saying, ‘Among us is a man who does such-and-such.’

“The overseer sent for him, but he refused to come—three times. Finally the overseer came to him in person, riding his mount. When the man saw him he fled, and the overseer pursued him but the man out-distanced him. The overseer called out, ‘Give me a moment that I may speak with you.’ He replied, and then he stood up …”