He also heard from: Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mahdī; Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Allāh; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥuṣayn—who transmitted to him the whole of the Musnad; Abū al-Mawāhib Aḥmad ibn Mulūk; and the judge Abū Bakr. He was the last person to receive ḥadīth from Ibn al-Mahdī and from Ibn al-Muhtadī.

Those who narrated from him include: Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn Khalīl, Ibn al-Najjār, Abū Mūsā Ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, al-Yaldānī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, al-Najīb (1), and many others.

By ijāzah, he was also narrated by Ibn Abī al-Khayr and Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī.

Ibn al-Dubaythī (2) said: “I heard from him in the year 514 AH; he was alert, quick-witted, and his audition was sound.”

Ibn Nuqṭah (3) said: “He died on the tenth of Jumādā al-Ūlā in 599 AH, and his hearing was reliable.”

Ibn al-Najjār remarked: “I read a great deal to him. He was a vigilant shaykh, refined in temperament, charming in his anecdotes, quick in reply—one of the finest of men. He had recited the Quran, pursued ḥadīth on his own initiative, studied under the shaykhs, and wrote with his own hand. He lived so long that he became unique in possessing most of the reports he transmitted, and he related the Musnad of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal on several occasions. Students undertook journeys to him, and Allah preserved his hearing, sight, and intellect until his death. He was generous to the students who came to him, ever smiling and good-humoured.”