He narrated from: al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī; the jurist Muḥammad ibn Muqātil; Aḥmad ibn Ḥakīm; Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Maysarah; and Abū Dāwūd al-Sinjī.
Those who narrated from him include Aḥmad ibn Bishr al-Muzanī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṭalḥī, Abū Bakr al-Mufīd, Zāhir al-Sarkhasī, al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad the judge, and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd the merchant.
He died in Rajab, 316 AH, at a little over ninety years of age.
270 – Ḥaramī ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Makkī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad*
He is the ḥadith scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Abī Khamīṣah, a resident of Baghdad.
He narrated from Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhzūmī, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Jawwāz, Yaḥyā ibn al-Rabīʿ, al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, and a group of others, among them Muḥammad ibn ʿUzayz al-Aylī.
He also transmitted al-Zubayr’s book al-Nasab (Genealogy).
Those who received hadith from him include Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyawayh, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ḥabābah, and several others.
He served as the kātib al-ḥakam (court clerk) for the judge Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf.
He was declared reliable by Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb and others ⦗1⦘.
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 317 AH.