son of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Shaybānī, the Baghdadi, known as al-Qazzāz, Ibn Zurayq (1) al-Ḥarīmī.
He heard hadith from his grandfather, from Abū Saʿd ibn Khushaysh, Abū al-Qāsim al-Rabaʿī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ṭayūrī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAllāf, Ibn Bayān, Ibn Nabhān, Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī, Abū al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn al-Mukhtār, and many others.
The highest chains of transmission ultimately converged upon him.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī (2), Ibn al-Akhdar, al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Taqī Ibn Bāsūyah, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Dubaythī, al-Jamāl Abū Ḥamzah al-Maqdisī, Sālim ibn Ṣaṣrā, Faḍl Allāh ibn al-Jīlī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Sabbāk, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Futūḥ ibn al-Ḥuṣrī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Bandanījī, and a host of others.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim alone possessed a written license (ijāza) from him.
Ibn al-Dubaythī (3) said: “I saw his date of birth, penned in his grandfather’s own hand: Jumādā al-Ākhirah 491 AH. He died on the nineteenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 583 AH.”
In that same year passed away: ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Yūsuf, the shaykh of the futuwwa; the muhaddith ʿAbd al-Mughīth ibn Zuhayr; the Chief Judge, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Dāmaghānī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā Abū al-Fath al-Baradānī; and the senior amir Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Maqdam.