He also possessed a number of uṣūl (large source manuscripts) and ajzāʾ (single-fascicle collections) that his father had purchased for him.
Among those who narrated from him were: Shaykh Abū ʿUmar, his brother Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, and their sons (1); Badal al-Tabrīzī; the preacher ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Maʿāfirī; al-Raḍī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; the judge Zayn al-Dīn Ibn al-Ustād; Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān; Yūsuf ibn Khalīl; al-Ḥasan ibn Sallām; Sālim ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq; the preacher of ʿAqrabāʾ; Isḥāq ibn Ṣaṣrā; Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ; al-ʿImād ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī and his brother Muḥammad; the preacher of Mardā; al-Ḍiyāʾ Ṣaqr al-Ḥalabī; Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl; al-Zayn Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim; and several others.
He composed an ode in praise of al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil, in which he says:
I have no patron, benefactor, or refuge—
No wealth, no hoped-for aim—save you, my shield.
He died a stranger near Hamadhān in 584 AH; another report places his death at the end of 583. His father, Abū al-Rajāʾ, had passed away around 540 AH.
Al-Samʿānī said: “I read to him three fascicles that his father-in-law, the ḥadīth master Ismāʿīl, had selected for him. They contained narrations from the cousin of his grandfather, al-Raʾīs al-Thaqafī, from Abū Naṣr al-Simsār, and from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bayān al-Razzāz. He was tireless in seeking out ḥadīth and collecting them, and he obtained the major reference works.”