al-Ṣadr al-Bakrī, al-Kamāl Ibn al-ʿAdīm and his brother Muḥammad, al-Jamāl Muḥammad ibn ʿAmrūn, al-Shihāb al-Qūṣī and his brother ʿUmar, al-Majd Ibn ʿAsākir, al-Taqī Ibn Abī al-Yusr, al-Jamāl al-Baghdādī, Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah al-Kahfī, al-Quṭb Ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn, the jurist Aḥmad ibn Niʿmah, Isḥāq ibn Yilkaweh the scribe, al-Muʾayyad Asʿad ibn al-Qalānsī, al-Bahāʾ Ḥasan ibn Ṣaṣrā, Ṭāhir the oculist, al-Jamāl Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣayrafī, Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿUmar, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn ʿAllān, al-Kamāl ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Aḥmad ibn Shaybān, Ghāzī al-Ḥalāwī, al-Fakhr ʿAlī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Khaṭīb al-Mizzah, Fāṭimah bint al-Muḥassin, Fāṭimah bint ʿAsākir, Zaynab bint Makkī, Shāmiyyah bint al-Bakrī, Ṣafiyyah bint Shukr, Khadījah bint Rājiḥ (1), Sitt al-ʿArab al-Kindiyyah, and many others besides them.
By written authorisation only: Ibn al-Wāsiṭī and al-Kamāl al-Fuwayrah.
Ibn Nuqṭah (2) said: He heard portions of the Sunan (3) from Abū al-Badr al-Karkhī and portions from Mufliḥ al-Dūmī—both of whom said, “Al-Khaṭīb related it to us.” He also heard the Jāmiʿ (4) from Abū al-Fatḥ (5) al-Karūkhī. He then remarked: “He was prolific, his auditions were sound, and he was trustworthy in ḥadīth.” He died on the ninth of Rajab in the year 607 AH and was buried at Bāb Ḥarb.
ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥājib said: He came to Damascus, the students crowded around him, he alone possessed transmissions from a number of shaykhs, he wrote books and single-part works, and he was the foremost musnid of the people of his age.