He heard (hadith) from Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kāghadī, ʿAlī ibn Tāj al-Qurrāʾ, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Bājisrāʾī, Yaḥyā ibn Thābit, Abū Bakr ibn al-Naqqūr, Nafīsa al-Bazzāza, Hibat Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Būqī, and a number of others.
He lived to a great age, and his renown spread far and wide. In 621 AH he taught hadith in Damascus and Aleppo, after which he returned to Baghdad and has remained there up to the present time, with ever-increasing crowds of students around him.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Nuqṭah, al-Birzālī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn al-Najjār, al-Muḥibb ʿAbd Allāh, Mūsā ibn Abī al-Fatḥ, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Zajjāj, Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn al-Qalansī, the lecturer Kamāl al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Amīn al-Dawlah, Taqī al-Dīn ibn al-Wāsiṭī and his brother, ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Farrāʾ, al-Taqī ibn Muʾmin, Majd al-Dīn ibn al-ʿAdīm together with his page Baybars, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Naḥḥās, his cousin Ayyūb, Majd al-Dīn ibn al-Ẓahīr, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿImād, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Muʿadhal, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Ṭayyibī, and many others. He also issued ijāzas to several people.
Ibn Nuqṭah said, “His auditions are sound.”
Ibn al-Ḥājib remarked, “He was an easy-going, generous shaykh, ever smiling, possessing autograph collections from which he taught. His inner state was sound and he was wholly devoted to his craft, though he inclined toward Shiʿism; still, nothing but good was seen from him.”
Ibn al-Sāʿī stated, “He was appointed as muṣmiʿ (official reciter) at the Mashyakha of the Mustanṣiriyya in Dhū al-Qaʿdah 641 AH— that is, after Ibn al-Qubayṭī.”