and the ḥadith scholar Bundar ibn Muḥammad al-Khulqānī (1);
• Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ballīzah al-Khiraqī (2); in 423 AH he recited to him the Qunbul transmission (3) in the form he had learned from Ibn Zanjawayh;
• Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaym al-Muʿallim, a disciple of Ghulām Muḥsin;
• Abū Naṣr al-Faḍl ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī, a disciple of Ibn Maylah;
• Abū al-Qāsim al-Faḍl ibn ʿAlī al-Sukkārī, a disciple of Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Dhakwānī;
• Faḍlān ibn ʿUthmān al-Qaysī, likewise a disciple of al-Dhakwānī;
• Abū ʿAlī al-Muṭahhar ibn Buṭṭah (4), who narrated from al-Ḥammāl;
• Lāḥiq ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, who transmitted from al-Faḍl ibn Shahrayār.
He also studied the Qālūn recitation with Abū Saʿd Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī—himself a pupil of Abū al-Faḍl al-Rāzī—in the presence of a large gathering of Abū Nuʿaym’s students, and with Ibn Rīdhah.
He visited the ḥadith master Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Ṭalḥī (5), al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Daylamī, and several others.
In Isfahān he also received ḥadith from a number of women:
• Umm Saʿd Asmāʾ bint Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, who narrated from Ibn ʿAbdkuwayh, al-Jammāl, and Ibn Abī ʿAlī;
• Amat al-ʿAzīz bint Muḥammad ibn al-Junayd, who had heard from al-Jammāl;
• Sārah, the sister of his teacher Abū Ṭālib al-Kundalānī;
• Fāṭimah bint Mājah, who transmitted from Abū Saʿīd ibn Ḥasnawayh;
• Lāmiʿah bint Saʿīd al-Baqqāl. A number of transmitters had already taken ḥadith from her while the ḥadith master Abū Nuʿaym was still alive.
He eventually compiled a Muʿjam of his Isfahān teachers, preserving it in a large volume.