He transmitted from Ahmad ibn Harb al-Taʾi, Hājib ibn Sulaymān al-Manbijī, ʿAlī ibn Sirāj, Sulaymān ibn Sayf al-Ḥarrānī, and others of their rank.
Among those who received reports from him were Abū Zurʿah and Abū Bakr—the two sons of Abū Dujānah—, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, Ḥamzah al-Kinānī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Yaqṭīnī.
He was still relating ḥadith in the year 313 AH.
281 – Ibn al-Buhlūl, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Tanūkhī *
The Imām, accomplished scholar, versatile authority, and leading judge: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn Buhlūl ibn Ḥassān al-Tanūkhī al-Anbārī, the Ḥanafī jurist.
He was born in 231 AH.
His teachers included Abū Kuraib, Muḥammad ibn Zunbur al-Makkī, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, and his father, the ḥāfiẓ Isḥāq ibn Buhlūl, along with many others.
Those who related from him were Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warraq, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraqutnī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhliṣ, and others.
He was a man of consummate merit: an Imām, trustworthy, of great standing, richly versed in literature, flawless in dignity, and superb in Arabic.
He held the judgeship of the city of al-Manṣūr for twenty years,