He heard ḥadīth from his father, Abū al-Walīd al-Tayālisī, Abū Salamah al-Minqarī, Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī, Sahl ibn Bakkār, and their contemporaries.

Those who narrated from him included Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Qāḍī (1), ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and others.

Al-Khaṭīb (2) and other critics declared him reliable.

Ṭalḥah al-Shāhid said, “When Ismāʿīl the judge died, Baghdad remained three and a half months without a judge until ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Shawārib was appointed, in addition to his post as judge of Sāmarrā; he had become judge of Sāmarrā after his brother al-Ḥasan.”

He added, “ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad was a righteous man of great standing, deeply devoted to the pursuit of ḥadīth, trustworthy and dependable. He held the judgeship of Baghdad for a few months (3).”

He died in Shawwāl of the year 283 AH.

201 – Khayr ibn ʿArafah, Abū Ṭāhir al-Miṣrī*
The traditionist, truthful, Abū Ṭāhir al-Miṣrī.

He narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Kātib, Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi, Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and several others.

Those who transmitted from him include ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Wāʿiẓ, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Adhruʿī, al-Ṭabarānī, and others.