Among those who narrated from him were al-Barzali, Ibn al-Dubaythi, Ibn Nuqta, Ibn al-Majd, Abu al-Muzaffar Ibn al-Nabulusi, Abu Ishaq Ibn al-Wasiti, Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Zayn, al-Majd Ibn al-Khalili, Ahmad Ibn al-ʿImad, al-Fakhr ʿAli, Muhammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, Mahfuz Ibn al-Ḥāmiḍ, and—last of all to receive authorisation from him—Fatima bint Sulayman.
He was illiterate and unable to write, yet he was marked by humility and ready compliance.
He auditioned Sahih al-Bukhari, ʿAbd⦗1⦘, the collection of al-Darimi, al-Lumaʿ by al-Sarrāj, Shamaʾil al-Zuhhād from Abu al-Waqt, the first portion of the Mukhlisiyyāt together with some of the fifth, the latter half of the sixth, the eighth of Hadith al-Misri, Juzʾ Bibi, a teaching session of Shaykh al-Islam, the book Faʿalt wa-Afʿalt by al-Zajjāj, and Kitab al-Wilaya by Ibn ʿUqda in its lower-chain recension⦗2⦘.
Ibn al-Hajib stated that he died on Tuesday, the ninth of Rabiʿ al-Awwal⦗3⦘, in the year 628 AH.
In that same year there also passed away: Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hassanun al-Narsi, the merchant; al-Amjad, ruler of Baalbek; the Khwarazm-Shah Jalal al-Din; the physician al-Muhadhdhab ʿAbd al-Rahim ibn ʿAli al-Dakhwār; the hadith scholar Abu al-Hasan Ibn al-Qattan; al-Nizam ʿAli ibn Muhammad ibn Rahhal al-Misri; and Abu al-Rida Muhammad ibn