He received narrations from al-Qaʿnabi, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Qurrah ibn Ḥabīb, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī, and several others of their tier.
Those who transmitted from him include the judge, Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Siyāh, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Shaykh ibn Ḥayyān, and many others.
Abū Shaykh said, “He is trustworthy and reliable.” He died in Ṣafar, 291 AH.
Among the scholars who also died that year were: Abū al-ʿAbbās Thaʿlab (1), ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ḍabbī, Aḥmad ibn Sahl al-Ahwāzī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣāʾigh (2), Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Kaysān al-Thaqafī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī (3), ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Junayd (4), ʿAlī ibn Jablah Rustah, the judge Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Judhūʿī (5), and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Salm al-Rāzī (6).
251 – al-Qaṭrānī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥafṣ
The shaykh, ḥadith scholar, long-lived authority, and trustworthy narrator: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Qurayiʿī, from Basra, known as al-Qaṭrānī.