He heard ḥadīth from Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar, Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith, Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī, and others of their rank.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Nasāʾī—so stated by the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir alone—Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Abū ʿAwānah, ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Abū al-Fawāris al-Sindī, and several others.
Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is ṣāliḥ (upright).” (1)
Ibn Yūnus remarked, “He was trustworthy, firmly reliable.”
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 270 AH, after having settled in Egypt.
Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān told us in 692 AH; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Asadī told us; my grandfather Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Bunn told us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad the jurist told us; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl told us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sindī told us; Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq narrated to us; Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Balkhī narrated to us; Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah narrated to us, from al-Siṭm ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from Mūsā ibn Wardān, from Kaʿb al-Aḥbār, who said:
“In Paradise there is a pillar of red ruby, surmounted by countless chambers; it is the dwelling place of those who love one another for the sake of Allah.” (2)