He resided in Tiberias for a time. He narrated from his maternal uncle al-Jāḥiẓ, from Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās, Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Yashkurī, Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī, Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī, al-ʿAbbās al-Riyāshī, and several others. Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Kharāʾiṭī, Sahl ibn Aḥmad al-Dībājī, al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq, Abū Bakr ibn Mujāhid, and others.

He also related the Qurʾānic reading through Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Qaṣabī—the companion of ʿAbd al-Wārith—and through al-Sijistānī.

Because his own name carried an inauspicious meaning, he would not visit the sick, lest it be taken as a bad omen. He authored a number of works, and I know of no criticism against him. He died in 304 AH.

153 – Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī, Abū Yaʿqūb
The Imām, the gnostic, the shaykh of the Sufis, Abū Yaʿqūb.

He was widely traveled and studied under Dhū al-Nūn al-Miṣrī, Qāsim al-Jūʿī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, Duḥaym, and Abū Turāb ʿAskar al-Nakhshabī.