Ḥaydara, Ḥamza ibn al-Ḥubūbī, Ḥamza ibn Karrūs, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥarastānī, al-Falakī, al-Ṣāʾin, his brother the ḥadith master (1), Ḥassān ibn Tamīm, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Qazza, ʿAlī ibn ʿAsākir ibn Surūr al-Maqdisī, and many others.

He also heard, in Mecca, from Abū Ḥanīfa Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Khaṭībī, and in Aleppo from Abū Ṭālib ibn al-ʿAjamī.

Those who conferred upon him formal authorisation included ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, Muḥammad ibn al-Sallāl, Abū Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Khayyāṭ, Aḥmad ibn al-Ābunūsī, Muḥammad ibn Ṭirād, Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmawī, the jurist Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maṣṣīṣī, and many others.

Al-Barzalī even prepared for him a mashyakha (catalogue of teachers) in a single volume.

Among those who transmitted from him were al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Qūṣī, al-Mundhirī, Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, al-Zayn Khālid, Abū Bakr ibn Ṭarkhān, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān al-Lamtūnī, al-Sharaf Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Faraḍī, Jamāl Aḥmad ibn Abī Muḥammad al-Maghārī, al-Taqī Ibn al-Wāsiṭī and his brother, al-Taqī ibn Muʾmin, al-ʿIzz ibn al-Farrāʾ, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ḥūlān, Naṣr Allāh ibn ʿAyyāsh, Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Mawzāynī, and a large company besides.

He studied a little jurisprudence under Abū Saʿd ibn ʿAsrūn.

Al-Barzalī remarked: “He would ask (for money) though he had no real need, yet he was the leading musnid of Syria in his day.”

Ibn al-Ḥājib added: “At times he would take from individual wealthy men in return for allowing them to attend his recitations.”

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Salām said: “He was tight-fisted with granting auditory transmission, refusing to do so unless for some material compensation…"