He heard from: Ḥassān ibn Tamīm al-Zayyāt; Ḥamzah ibn al-Ḥubūbī; Ḥamzah ibn Karwas; Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Falakī; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muqātil; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Dārānī; al-Ṣāʾin ibn ʿAsākir; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥarastānī; Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir; and others.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Barzalī; Ibn Khalīl; al-Ḍiyāʾ; al-Mundhirī; al-Jamāl Ibn al-Ṣābūnī; al-Sharaf Ibn al-Nābulusī; Ibn Hāmil; Majd al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAdīm; Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥallāl; al-Fakhr ibn ʿAsākir; his cousin al-Sharaf; his cousin ʿAbd al-Munʿim; al-Muʾayyad ʿAlī ibn Khaṭīb ʿAqrabā; ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Lamtūnī; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Dhikr; Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Yūnīnī; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Irbilī; al-Shihāb ibn Musharraf; Sunqur al-Ḥalabī; al-Bahāʾ Ayyūb ibn al-Naḥḥās; al-Ṣadr ibn Maktūm; Mūsā ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī; and others.
He narrated in Egypt, Aleppo, Baghdad, and Damascus.
Al-Mundhirī (1) said: “He used to come to Egypt frequently for trade.”
Ibn al-Ḥājib said: “He was constant in performing the five daily prayers in congregation, but he jested a great deal with his companions, and he did not honor the hadith scholars; rather, he was tight-fisted with them.”
I say: He died on the second of Rajab, 635 AH, and was buried beside his father in the Bāb al-Ṣaghīr cemetery.