He heard from: his own father; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Maʿānī ⦗1⦘; Abū Umayya al-Tarsūsī; Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr al-Sakūnī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf; and a number of others.
Those who transmitted on his authority include: Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar; the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥimṣī; the vizier Jaʿfar ibn Ḥinzābah; Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shaybānī; and others.
8 – Ibn Jawṣā, Aḥmad ibn ʿUmayr ibn Yūsuf *
The Imām, the unrivalled ḥāfiẓ, and foremost traditionist of Syria: Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿUmayr ibn Yūsuf ibn Mūsā ibn Jawṣā, a client of the Banū Hāshim—though some say he was the client of Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Kilābī—of Damascus.
He was born sometime in the early 230s AH.
He heard from: ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān al-Ḥimṣī; Muḥammad ibn Hāshim al-Baʿlabakkī; Muḥammad ibn Wazīr; Kathīr ibn ʿUbayd; Abū al-Taqī Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Yazanī ⦗2⦘; ʿImrān ibn Bakkār; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā; and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh