Among those who recited the Qur’an to him in all ten canonical readings was Abu Ahmad ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Sukaynah (1).

Narrated on his authority were that same Abu Ahmad, Abu al-Mawahib ibn Sasra, ʿAbd al-Qadir ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ruhawi, Yusuf ibn Ahmad al-Shirazi, Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Hammami, ʿAtiq ibn Badal al-Makki, as well as his own children—Ahmad, ʿAbd al-Barr, and Fatimah—and his grandchildren: the judge ʿAli, Muhammad, and ʿAbd al-Hamid, the sons of ʿAbd al-Rashid ibn ʿAli ibn Bunayman, together with others.

Those who related from him by ijazah (formal authorization) include Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Muqayyar and others.

Abu Saʿd al-Samʿani said: “He is a ḥāfiẓ (hadith master), meticulous, an accomplished Qur’an-reciter; upright in conduct, admirable in his affairs, of an approved path; dignified in spirit, generous with what he possesses, gracious to strangers. He has an excellent command of hadith, the variant readings, and literature. I heard from him in Hamadhān.”

The ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qādir (2) said: “Our shaykh is too famous to require introduction. According to what we know of the scholars’ and shaykhs’ biographies, the like of him is scarcely to be found over many generations. He surpassed the people of his time in the sheer number of auditions, while also mastering the foundations of what he heard, maintaining first-rate copies, and writing with great precision—for he never penned anything unless it was fully pointed and vowelled. His first audition from al-Duni was in the year (3) 495 AH, and he outshone the ḥuffāẓ of his era in memorising the genealogies, chronicles, names, teknonyms, narratives, and biographical accounts connected to hadith.”