He also heard (collected ḥadith) from Abū al-Makārim al-Labbān; Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd al-Karrānī; Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣaydalanī in Isfahān; Abū al-Qāsim al-Būṣīrī; Ismāʿīl ibn Yāsīn in Egypt; al-Mubārak ibn al-Maʿṭūsh; Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī; Ibn Abī al-Majd al-Ḥarbī in Baghdad; Abū Saʿd al-Ṣaffār; Manṣūr al-Furāwī; several scholars in Naysābūr; the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qādir in Ḥarrān, whose company he kept for a time; and Ibn al-Ḥuṣrī in Mecca, where he resided for his sake an entire year. He was a learned man, poor yet dignified, and he travelled widely.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Barzalī; al-Mundhirī; Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyyah; al-ʿImād Ibrāhīm al-Māsih; al-ʿImād Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭabbāl; al-Ḥusām ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Yūnīnī; al-Badr Ḥasan ibn al-Khallāl; al-Shams Muḥammad ibn al-Wāsiṭī; al-Najm Mūsā al-Shaqrawī; al-Fakhr Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAsākir; the Hanbalī judge; and a number of others.
He died on Mount Qāsiyūn in Shawwāl (1), in the year 639 AH.
Ibn al-Ḥājib said, “He was a righteous servant, a man of honor in spite of destitution, and one endowed with miraculous signs.”
The author adds: He copied a great many works, though his handwriting is notoriously poor.
61 – Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥmūdī *
The shaykh, the scholar, the ascetic, the transmitter of ḥadith, the standard-bearer of the religion: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of the shaykh