al-Ḍarīr (the Blind), Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Hāshimī, ʿUthmān ibn al-Haytham the muezzin, and a great many others.

He preserved several narrations whose chains contain only three transmitters.

Those who narrated from him include: Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Fārūq al-Khaṭṭābī, Ḥabīb al-Qazzāz, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Qaṭīʿī, al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿd al-Qurṭubī, the judge Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir al-Miyānjī, Abū Bakr al-Ājurrī, Abū Muḥammad ibn Māsī, and many others besides.

Al-Dāraqutnī and others declared him trustworthy.

He was noble, dignified, and affluent, learned in hadith and its transmission routes, and blessed with lofty isnāds. When he reached Baghdad the people crowded around him, and Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Khuttalī said:

“When Abū Muslim al-Kajjī arrived among us he dictated to us in Raḥbat Ghassān. In his session there were seven mustamlīs, each one relaying his words to the man beside him. People wrote from him while standing. Afterwards the square was inspected and the attendance was reckoned by counting the ink-pots; the number came to a little over forty thousand ink-pots, not counting the onlookers.”

Its chain of transmission is sound; Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb (1) heard it from Bushrā al-Fātinī (2), who said, “I heard al-Khuttalī say that.”

And Ghunjar said in The History of Bukhara: “Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us:”