, Waqid; Abū al-Munīb ʿUbayd Allah al-ʿAtakī; Israʾīl ibn Yūnus; Khārijah ibn Muṣʿab; Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān; Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ; Ḥammād ibn Zayd; ʿAwn ibn Mūsā; Sharīk the judge; Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd; and others besides them.
He kept the company of Ibn al-Mubārak for many years, and he transmitted all of his compilations.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Bukhārī; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn; ʿAbd Allah ibn Munīr; Maḥmūd ibn Ghailān; Abū Khaythamah; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Ḍaʿīf; Ibrāhīm ibn Yaʿqūb al-Jawzajānī; Aḥmad ibn Sayyār; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdah al-Āmulī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām ibn Abī Dārah; Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr Zāj; Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī; Ayyūb ibn al-Ḥasan the ascetic; Rawḥ ibn al-Faraj al-Baghdādī; his son, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Quhzād; Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Naḍr; and many others.
He was counted among the foremost imams of Khurāsān.
Abū Dāwūd said: I heard Aḥmad—he was asked about ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq—say, “There was nothing objectionable about him, except that people criticized him for irjāʾ (the Murjiʾah view), and he later abandoned it.” (1)
ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥibbān said: I found in my father’s notebook, written in his own hand:
Abū Zakariyyā—that is, Ibn Maʿīn—said: “I do not know of anyone who came to us from Khurāsān who was better than Ibn Shaqīq.”
They had even written a memorandum about him stating that he held irjāʾ. We mentioned this to him, and he replied, “I will not absolve you.” (2)