Those who narrated from him included the ḥadith masters: ʿAbd al-Ghanī; Ibn al-Mufaḍḍal; Ibn Khalīl; al-Ḍiyāʾ; Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ibn Dirbās; Abū Bakr ibn Makārim; al-Kamāl al-Ḍarīr; al-Naẓẓām ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rashīq; al-Muʿīn Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn; the preacher ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Qaysī; Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Muhallil; Aḥmad ibn Ḥāmid al-Artaāḥī; and others.

He also granted authorization to his daughter’s son and kinsman, Lāḥiq ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamd al-Artaāḥī, as well as to a number of others, and he issued an ijāza to Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr.

Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ said: “He was trustworthy, devout, firmly reliable, and of commendable conduct. We know of no elevated transmission he possessed other than the licence from al-Farrāʾ, and he never grew weary of having his narrations read aloud (may Allah have mercy on him).”

The ḥadith master al-Mundhirī (1) said: “I heard from him through my father’s transmission (2). He passed away on the twentieth of Shaʿbān in the year 601 AH.”