ibn Aʿyan, Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Muḥāribī, al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād, and a great many others.
He began his pursuit of knowledge sometime after 180 AH.
I have seen his Qur’anic commentary; it is bound in a single volume.
Among those who narrated from him are the Six Canonical Imams, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Zakariyyā al-Sājī, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bujayr, Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, Hannād ibn al-Sarī al-Ṣaghīr, and many others besides them.
Among the last to transmit from him was Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Hāshimī, who cited him in his Amālī (dictation sessions).
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: “He was the imam of the scholars of his age.” (1)
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Bilāl al-Shaṭawī stated: “I have never seen anyone with a stronger memory than he.”
Al-Nasāʾī declared: “Reliable (ṣadūq).” (2)
I say: He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 257 AH, having lived a little over ninety years.
The judge and erudite scholar Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Asadī al-Ḥanafī—and a group of others—told us: “Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān informed us, saying: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd….”