Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Salafī, Shuhdah al-Kātibah, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, and many others granted him an ijāzah.
In 576 AH and in the years that followed he heard ḥadith from: Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir; al-Khaḍir ibn Ṭāwūs; al-Faḍl ibn al-Bānyāsī; ʿUmar ibn Ḥammūwayh; Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥamzah ibn al-Mawāzīnī; Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr; Ibn Ṣadaqah al-Ḥarrānī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī al-Khiraqī; Ismāʿīl al-Janzawī; Barakāt al-Khushūʿī—and many others in Damascus. He then heard from Abū al-Qāsim al-Būṣīrī, Ismāʿīl ibn Yāsīn, and several scholars in Egypt; from Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣaydalānī, al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-Muṭahhar al-Ṣaydalānī, ʿAfīfah al-Farfāniyyah, Khalaf ibn Aḥmad al-Farrāʾ, Asʿad ibn Saʿīd ibn Rūḥ, Zāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Thaqafī, al-Muʾayyad ibn al-Ikhwah, and a company in Isfahan; from al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī, Zaynab al-Shaʿriyyah, and many others in Nīshāpūr; from Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad and a circle in Herat; from Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Samʿānī and a group in Marw; from al-Iftikhār al-Hāshimī in Aleppo; from ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī and others in Ḥarrān; and from ʿAlī ibn Habal in Mosul, in Hamadhān, and elsewhere.
He remained on that eastern journey for many years.
Indeed, during his time in Baghdad he heard from al-Mubārak ibn al-Maʿṭūsh, Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, Ibn Abī al-Majd al-Ḥarbī, Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukaynah, al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Ḥanīfah, al-Ḥasan ibn Ushnānah al-Farghānī, and many other scholars there. He completed his training under the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, excelled in the discipline, and recorded narrations from his peers and even from some who were his juniors, such as Khaṭīb Mardā and al-Zayn ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim. He gathered a large corpus of primary manuscripts, pronounced narrators weak or reliable, authenticated and identified hidden defects, recording some reports and setting others aside—all while preserving piety, integrity, and God-fearingness.