and Ibn Tāhir, and ʿAbd al-Munʿim, the son of the master Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī, and Ismāʿīl the Qur’an-reciter, together with others besides them.
He narrated al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa, Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ, and various additional works.
He excelled in the school, issued legal opinions and taught, lived to a great age, and was unrivalled in possessing high-level isnāds.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū al-Mawāhib Ibn Ṣuṣrā, ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn al-Najjār, al-Barzālī, Ibn Khalīl, al-Qūṣī, the Zakkī ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAdīm, al-Najīb Naṣr Allāh al-Ṣaffār, Zayn al-Dīn Khālid, al-Jamāl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sālim al-Anbārī, Abū al-Ghanāʾim Ibn ʿAllān, Abū Ḥāmid Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, al-Burhān Ibn al-Darajī, Yūsuf ibn Tammām, Abū Bakr Ibn al-Anmāṭī, Muḥammad and ʿUmar, the two sons of ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Qawwās, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-ʿĀmirī, al-Fakhr ʿAlī, Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān, Shams ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (1) ibn al-Zayn, Shams Ibn al-Zayn (2), Abū Bakr ibn ʿUmar al-Mizzī, the judge Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿImād, Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Wāsiṭī, and a great many others.
By written authorization, al-ʿImād ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and ʿĀʾisha bint al-Majd also related from him.
He was an imam, a jurist thoroughly versed in the school, devout and righteous, and his rulings were universally praised.