He narrated from Ibn Nabhan, Ibn Bayān, and Abū Ṭālib al-Yūsufī.
From him transmitted Ibn al-Akhdar, Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Shams al-Bukhārī, Katāʾib ibn Mahdī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Fayyālī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Khalaf, and others.
He died in Mecca, before his brother, in 574 AH, at the age of sixty-nine. He was devout, virtuous, and of consummate dignity.
6 – al-ʿUlaymī, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah*
The muhaddith, scholar, and tireless traveller Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Khaḍir ibn Musāfir al-ʿUlaymī al-Dimashqī, the coppersmith, known as Ibn Hawshkāsh (1).
He heard ḥadīth from the jurist Naṣr Allah al-Maṣīṣī, Naṣr ibn Maṭkūd, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Bunn, Abū al-Asʿad ibn al-Qushayrī, Naṣr ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Barmakī, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Furāwī, Hibat Allah al-Daqqāq, ʿAbd Allah ibn Rifāʿa, al-Salafī, and many others in Khurāsān, Iraq (2), Egypt, and the Levant.
He wrote extensively and was truthful, praiseworthy.