He attended formal audition sessions in 492 AH, and in the years that followed he likewise studied with Ibn ʿAllawayh.
Among those who narrated from him were: the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Muḥammad ibn Makkī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī al-Faraj al-Jubbāʾī, al-Muhadhdhab ibn Zaynah, Abū al-Faḍl ibn Salāmah the perfumer, Muḥammad ibn Khalīl ibn Badr al-Rārānī, and several others.
By written authorization his transmitters include: Karīmah, the ḥadith master al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Rashīd al-ʿIrāqī, and others.
He died on a Tuesday, shortly after completing the dawn prayer, on the 27th of Rajab 579 AH. The funeral prayer was led by the ḥadith scholar Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī.
In that same year there also died: Ismāʿīl ibn Qāsim al-Zayyāt in Egypt; the poetess Taqiyyah al-Armanāziyya; Iraq’s poet Muḥammad ibn Bakhtiyār al-Abla; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAqīl, the Qurʾān-reciter; the market-inspector of Wāsiṭ, Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Kattānī; and Abū al-Majd Maḥmūd ibn Naṣr ibn al-Shaʿʿār, father of the hadith scholar Ibrāhīm.

38 – Al-Saffārī, Abū al-Maḥāmid Ḥammād ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl *
The erudite scholar, pillar of the faith, Abū al-Maḥāmid Ḥammād ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq ibn Shīth al-Wāʾilī, al-Bukhārī, the Ḥanafī, known as Ibn al-Saffārī.
He heard hadith from his father and from Ismāʿīl ibn al-Bayhaqī.