Ibn Nuqṭah (1) said, “He was reliable, precise, trustworthy, prodigious in audition, and his source-manuscripts were sound. We learned and benefited from him, and we never saw anyone like him.”

I add: Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, al-Barzalī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn Khalīl, Zayn al-Dīn Khālid, Muḥammad ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq, ʿAlī ibn Mīrān, the ascetic ʿAlī ibn ʿAdlān al-Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Dārī al-Khalīlī, al-Jamāl Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣayrafī, al-Najīb ʿAbd al-Laṭīf and his brother al-ʿIzz, al-Miqdād ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Qaysī, ʿAlam al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim al-Andalusī, Isrāʾīl ibn Aḥmad al-Qurashī, and his son ʿAlī ibn al-Akhḍar.

He also granted an ijāzah to al-Kamāl al-Fuwayri.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “His father had him listen to a number of scholars. His first studies were with Ibn Nāṣir and al-Urmawī, and he continued attending sessions until he read before our own teachers. In his youth he copied many works for himself and produced transcripts for others. I read to him often, both in his study-circle and in his cloth shop in the Khān al-Khalīfah. He was reliable, authoritative, and distinguished. I have not seen among our teachers anyone to equal him in the abundance of what he had heard, the soundness of his manuscripts, his memorization, and his precision. He was trustworthy, careful to safeguard his dignity, devout, and refined. He died on the sixth of Shawwāl, 611 AH.”

I further note: He compiled a book on the Companions from whom he and his son transmitted; a single-volume work entitled “Those Who Narrated from Imām Aḥmad” (2); and a one-volume Mashyakha of Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, which he likewise transmitted.