He said: He taught in Egypt, Syria, and the Ḥijāz. He was reliable, quick-witted, sound in his sources, and marked by serenity and dignity.
I add: Among those who narrated from him were Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn, Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, Abū Mūsā the son of the ḥadith scholar (1), Ibn Khalīl, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn al-Najjar, Ibn al-Dubaythī, Muḥammad ibn Ghunaymah al-Iskāf, Muḥammad ibn ʿAskar al-Ṭayyib, al-ʿImād Muḥammad ibn al-Suhrawardī, Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah al-Sāwajī, Bakr ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī, ʿĀmir ibn Makkī, ʿAbd Allah and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—the two sons of ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Daynah—al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Qāshānī, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Makkī, Makkī ibn ʿUthmān ibn al-Hubrī, Yūnus ibn Jaʿfar al-Azajī, al-Najīb ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, and many others.
Those who received from him by ijāza (written authorization) include Ibn Shaybān, al-Fakhr ʿAlī, and al-Kamāl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn al-Mukabbir (2).
Ibn Sukaynah came to Damascus as an envoy in the year 585 AH (3), and al-Tāj Ibn Abī Jaʿfar, together with a number of others, heard from him on that occasion.
Imām Abū Shāmah (4) said: “In 607 AH Ibn Sukaynah passed away. The leading figures of the state attended his funeral, and it was a day long remembered.” He then added, “He was one of the abdāl.”
Ibn al-Najjar said: “He died on the nineteenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, may Allah have mercy on him.”