Among those who narrated from him were al-Samʿānī, Ibn al-Akhḍar, Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad the son of the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Sālim ibn Ṣaṣrā, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ḥamāmī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Sabbāk, Faḍl Allāh al-Jīlī, and many others.
The last person to transmit from him by written authorisation was Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim.
Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Qaṭīʿī stated: “He told me, ‘I was born in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 491 AH, and I died in Rajab of 581 AH.’”
I say: When someone asserts, “I was born in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of 491 AH (1),” how can it be imagined that he would have been able to hear (ḥadith) in that very year? Yet al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil read this fascicle to him—as I saw in his own handwriting—in the year 541 AH (2).
I also copied, from the hand of Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Khashshāb the grammarian, that he read it to Abū al-Fatḥ in 546 AH.
Likewise, from the handwriting of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Dulaf I copied that he read it to him in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of 581 AH, the very year of his death. It was heard by Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Biqāʾ ibn al-Sabbāk, and al-Tawzarī read it to Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim with written permission.
- Ibn Ḥubaysh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī
The judge, the imām, the scholar, the ḥāfiẓ, the firmly reliable transmitter, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān