Among those who narrated from him were: Humayd ibn al-Hasan al-Warrāq, Ahmad ibn ʿUtbah, Abu Ahmad ibn ʿAdī, Ibn Ḥibbān, Abu Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Abu ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Simsār, the judge Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Abharī, al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar the muʾadhdhin, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Anṭākī, Abu Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Abu Ahmad al-Ḥākim, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, and many others.
Abu Ahmad al-Ḥākim used to err in giving his lineage, attributing him to his great-grandfather.
He passed away with six days remaining of Jumādā al-Ākhirah in the year 316 AH, at an age somewhere in the nineties.
I read this to Abu al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad: Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Muqriʾ informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us in the year 449 AH; Abu Ahmad Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abu Bakr Muḥammad ibn Marwān al-Bazzāz in Damascus narrated to us; Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān narrated to us; Hishām ibn Ḥassān related to me, from Thābit, from Anas, who said:
“I served the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for ten years, and he never said about anything I had done, ‘Why did you do such-and-such?’ nor about anything I had left undone, ‘Why did you not do such-and-such?’”
This narration is singular; no one transmitted it from Hishām except Abu Nawfal ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Kaysānī. (1)