al-Zāghūnī, al-Shahruzūrī, Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, Saʿd Allāh ibn al-Dajjājī, ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūyah al-Yazdī, and ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn Naṣr.
Al-Mundhirī (1) said: He studied the various readings under Ibn al-Zāghūnī, Abū al-Karam, Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Samīn, and a number of others.
He also devoted himself to literature, heard narrations from a host of scholars, and continued listening, reciting, and teaching until old age. He lived in the vicinity of the Sacred Mosque for more than twenty years and was given to abundant worship. Later he set out for Yemen, but death overtook him at al-Mahjam (2) in Muḥarram, 619 AH.
Another report states that he died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 618 AH (3).
Al-Dubaythī (4) said: He was well-versed in this discipline. He travelled to Mecca in 598 AH, settled there, led the Ḥanbalīs in prayer, and—what an excellent shaykh he was—proved trustworthy and devout.
Al-Ḍiyāʾ said: In Muḥarram, 619 AH, our teacher, the ḥadith master Abū al-Futūḥ, passed away at al-Mahjam.
I say: Among those who narrated from him were al-Dubaythī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Barzalī, Ibn Khalīl, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Nāṣir al-Yamanī, Sulaymān ibn Khalīl al-ʿAsqalānī the jurist, Tāj al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn al-Qasṭallānī, and al-Shihāb al-Qūṣī, who said: He was an imam in