and Nahshal ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAnbarī; Maḥmūd ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣayrafī, known as al-Ashqar; al-Haytham ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham al-Ashʿarī; Khajasta, daughter of ʿAlī ibn Abī Dharr al-Ṣāliḥānī; Umm al-Layth, Daʿjāʾ daughter of Abū Sahl al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad; and Fāṭimah daughter of ʿAbd Allāh al-Jawzdāniyyah.
He then journeyed abroad and heard ḥadith from: Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥuṣayn (1); Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṭabar; the hospital judge Abū Bakr; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Zāghūnī; Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Kādis; and many others besides them.
He composed the book al-Ṭawālāt (The Long Narrations) in two volumes—scholars defer to him for the breadth of its collection; a Supplement to Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥābah (2), in which he gathered material exhaustively; al-Qunūt (Supplication in the Standing) in a single volume; Tammat al-Gharībayn (3), a work that attests to his linguistic mastery; al-Laṭāʾif fī Riwayat al-Kibār wa-Naḥwihim ʿani al-Ṣighār (Fine Points on Elders and the Like Narrating from Juniors); ʿAwālī (4), which demonstrates his advanced expertise in distinguishing elevated and downgraded chains; Taḍyīʿ al-ʿUmur fī Iṣṭināʿ al-Maʿrūf ilā al-Luʾām (Squandering One’s Life by Showing Kindness to the Base); and many other writings.