He transmitted ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Abū Naṣr al-Tammār, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah, Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, Manṣūr ibn Abī Muzāḥim, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī, and their contemporaries.

Those who narrated from him include al-Nasāʾī—who said, “there is no objection to him”—Abū ʿAwānah, Ibn Jawṣā, Abū ʿAlī ibn Maʿrūf, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Nāṣih, Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd al-Ḥimṣī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Marwān, and many others.

Abū ʿAlī ibn Maʿrūf said, “Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī narrated to us. He served as judge over Damascus and Ḥimṣ and belonged to Banū Umayyah ibn ʿAbd Shams.”

I (the author) say: In Damascus he deputized for its chief judge, Abū Zurʿah Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān.

Al-Khaṭīb said: “I have been informed that he was a Baghdadi, though his lineage goes back to Merv.” (1)

Al-Nasāʾī likewise declared him “trustworthy.”

Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Nāṣih stated: “He passed away in mid Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 292 AH.”

It was also said that he reached the age of ninety, or just under.

He authored several works, among them the books al-ʿIlm (Knowledge) and Musnad ʿĀʾishah, and other titles. (2)

He was an authority, and al-Nasāʾī reported extensively from him.