He narrated hadith from Khalid ibn Yusuf al-Samti (1); ʿAbd al-Jabbar ibn al-ʿAlaʾ; Abu ʿUmayr ibn al-Nahhas al-Ramli; Abu Hafs al-Fallas; Nasr ibn ʿAli; Abu al-Taqi (2) Hisham ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Yazani (3); ʿAli ibn Khushram; Yaʿqub al-Daruqi; and their peers.

Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn ʿUqda, Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Sayrafi, Abu Sahl ibn Ziyad, and others.

Bakr ibn Muhammad said, “I heard him declare, ‘For the sake of this field—meaning hadith—I have drunk my own urine five times.’”

Abu Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdi stated, “I have never seen anyone with a better memory than Ibn Khirash.”

Ibn ʿAdi observed, “He has been accused of some degree of Shiʿite inclination, yet I hope he did not deliberately lie.”

I heard Ibn ʿUqda say, “Whenever Ibn Khirash wrote something in support of Shiʿism, he would remark, ‘This will only sell with me and with you.’”

ʿAbdan related, “Ibn Khirash brought to Bundar two booklets he had compiled on the faults of the Two Shaykhs. Bundar rewarded him with two thousand dirhams; with that sum he built him a small room in Baghdad in which to teach, but Ibn Khirash died as soon as it was finished (4).”

Abu Zurʿah Muhammad ibn Yusuf, the ḥafiz, said, “Ibn Khirash produced a work on the faults of the Two Shaykhs, and he was a Rafidi.”