He heard ḥadith from Ghānim al-Burjī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, Hamzah ibn al-ʿAbbās al-ʿAlawī, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Thaqafī, Ṣāʿid ibn Sayyār al-Dahhān, Yaḥyā ibn Mandah, Abū ʿAdnān Muḥammad ibn Abī Nizār, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq, Ismāʿīl al-Ḥāfiẓ, and many others.
In Hamadhān he studied with Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ and his peers; in Shiraz he learned from Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb and Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan; and in Ahwāz he listened to ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥusayn.
He wrote, compiled, and held dictation sessions, and he was regarded as trustworthy and knowledgeable.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Samʿānī, ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī, Abū Nizār Rabīʿah al-Yamanī, and others. By written authorization, Karīmah and several contemporaries also narrated from him.
He passed away on 22 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 581 AH.
In that same year the following likewise died: Shaykh Ḥayāh in Ḥarrān; Bahlawān ibn the Atābak, lord of Persia; the chief secretary Abū al-Yusr Shākir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tanūkhī; the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq; the imam Abū al-Qāsim al-Suhaylī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Sibiyyī (1) al-Jayyār in Egypt; Shaykh ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Naṣr al-Najjār; Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Shātil; Abū al-Juyūsh ʿAsākir ibn ʿAlī, the Qur’an reciter; al-Mufaḍḍal ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥimyarī al-Bānyāsī; the governor of Ḥimṣ, Muḥammad ibn Asad al-Dīn; the ḥadith master Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī; and Abū al-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣābūnī.