Ibn Maymun al-Iskandarani; Muʿawiyah ibn ʿAmr al-Himsi, the companion of Hariz ibn ʿUthman; Musa ibn ʿAmir al-Murri; Muhammad ibn ʿAwf al-Taʾi; and many others in Egypt and Syria. In Damascus he also met a few shaykhs who narrated to him from Maʿruf al-Khayyat.

Those who transmitted from him include: Hamzah al-Kinani; Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani; Abu ʿAli al-Naysaburi; Abu Bakr ibn al-Sunni; Abu Ahmad ibn ʿAdi; al-Zubayr ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid al-Asadabadi (1); Abu Ahmad al-Hakim; and a great many others—the last of them to die was ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Kilabi.

Al-Tabarani said, “Ibn Jawsa is trustworthy.”

Abu ʿAli al-Hafiz stated: I heard Ibn Jawsa—who was a pillar among the pillars of hadith—say, “A chain that is fifty years from the death of the shaykh is a lofty chain.” (2)

Abu Dharr al-Harawi related: I heard Abu Masʿud al-Dimashqi say: A Baghdadi man who had committed many reports to memory came to Ibn Jawsa and said, “O Ibn Jawsa, every time you present me with a rare hadith drawn from the Syrian traditionists, I will give you a dirham.” The man kept citing whatever Allah willed, but nothing was unfamiliar to Ibn Jawsa, and the visitor became distressed. Ibn Jawsa told him, “Do not worry,” and proceeded to give him a dirham for every hadith he mentioned. Ibn Jawsa, after all, possessed abundant wealth. (3)

I say: He was among the foremost people of Damascus.

The hafiz ʿAbd al-Ghani ibn Saʿid said: Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Karaji narrated to us, saying, “Ibn Jawsa in Syria is like Ibn ʿUqda in Kufa.” (4)