al-Dhahabī, ʿAlī ibn al-Faraj ibn Abī Rūḥ, Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā ibn Jamīl al-Andalusī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān al-Khashshāb, a Basran, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Junayd—who died before him—, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Jawzī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān al-Jallāb, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Aṣbahānī al-Ṣaffār, Abū Bashīr al-Dūlābī, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khinb (1) al-Bukhārī, Ibn al-Marzabān, Muḥammad ibn Khalaf, Wakīʿ, and many others.

Ibn Mājah also transmitted from him in his Tafsīr.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “I wrote down narrations from him together with my father, and my father said, ‘He is truthful.’” (2)

Al-Khatīb stated: “He was the tutor of more than one of the caliphs’ children.” (3)

Another scholar observed: “Whenever Ibn Abī al-Dunyā sat with someone, he could, if he wished, make him laugh, and if he wished, make him weep in the very same sitting, owing to the breadth of his knowledge and the abundance of his reports.”

Aḥmad ibn Kāmil remarked: “Ibn Abī al-Dunyā was the tutor of the Caliph al-Muʿtaḍid.”

Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān the cloth-merchant said: “Abū Dharr al-Qāsim ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abī al-Dunyā told me: ‘The Caliph al-Muktafī (4) once entered upon al-Muwaffaq with his wooden tablet in his hand. Al-Muwaffaq asked, “Why are you carrying your tablet?” He replied, “My young servant has died and so has found relief from the kuttāb (elementary Qur’an school).” Al-Muwaffaq said, “Those are not your own words. Hārūn al-Rashīd had ordered that the tablets of his children be shown to him,” so they were presented…’” (5)