Among those who narrated from him were Abū Ṭāhir ibn al-Anmāṭī, Abū Bakr ibn Nuqṭah, Futūḥ ibn Nūḥ al-Juwaynī, Ibn al-Najjār, Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, and several others.

He also granted ijāzah (formal authorization) to Ibn Abī ʿUmar, al-Fakhr ʿAlī, and the qāḍī ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Abharī.

Ibn al-Dubaythī (1) said: “He had a fine grasp of knowledge, a solid command of the foundational disciplines, accurate transmission, and keen alertness. He became the leading musnid of his age, taught in Baghdad more than once, and was an exemplary shaykh in intellect, character, and goodwill.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm (2) said: “He was a remnant of the early generations, the shaykh of judges and court witnesses, the last man to relate the Musnad in its entirety, and he understood everything that was recited before him.”

When asked about the origin of the nisbah Mandāʾī (3) he explained: “My forefathers were a non-Arab people who embraced Islam late; because of that they were so called. In Persian it means ‘the remnant.’”

He died on the eighth of Shaʿbān, 605 AH. He was buried in his own residence, and several complete Qurʾānic readings were concluded in his presence. For a time he also served as deputy judge of Wāsiṭ.

Abū Bakr al-Ḥāzimī wrote hadith from him and narrated a great deal of it in Baghdad (4), and Ibn al-Najjār declared him trustworthy.