He narrated from: Abū Yaḥyā ibn al-Muqriʾ, Aḥmad al-Bazzī, Salamah ibn Shabīb, Ḥumayd ibn Masʿadah, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mustawrid, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, Muḥammad ibn Wazīr al-Wāsiṭī, Aḥmad ibn al-Khalīl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharrimī, Hārūn ibn Mūsā al-Farwī, al-Naḍr ibn Salamah, and others of their generation.
Those who narrated from him include: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad—the father of Abū Nuʿaym—Qāḍī Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī, and many others.
He was counted among the eminent scholars of Isfahān.
Abū Nuʿaym said: He died in the month of Ramaḍān, in the year 319 AH.
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah informed us, from Abū Jaʿfar al-Qurṭubī; Abū al-Qāsim the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Baghdādī informed us; Maḥmūd ibn Jaʿfar al-Kawsaj informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī informed us; al-Faḍl ibn al-Khaṣīb narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Wazīr al-Wāsiṭī narrated to us; Muʿtamar narrated to us, from Layth, from ʿAdī ibn ʿAdī, who said:
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said, “I was on the verge of making an investigation: anyone who reaches the age of forty and has not performed the ḥajj, and has no (valid) excuse, I would impose the jizyah on him.” (1) A singular report.