Narrated on his authority were Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim and Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ.
Those who recited the Qur’an to him included: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Khulayʿ al-Qalānisī, al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd al-Muṭṭawīʿī, ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad al-Majāshīʿī (1), Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baghdādī, Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿIṣām, ʿAlī ibn Manṣūr al-Shaʿīrī, and—so he claimed—Abū Aḥmad al-Sāmarrī (2).
Ibn Khulayʿ said, “Our shaykh was excellent at imparting knowledge; I read with him when he was a little over ninety years old.” (3)
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaṣṣāʿ stated, “He was born in Shaʿbān of the year 218 AH.” (4)
He himself used to say (5): “I read with Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUlāmī in the year 240 AH and again the following year.” He died (6) in 243 AH at the age of ninety-three.
By then he had become physically frail (7).
He told me, “I studied under Ḥammād ibn Abī Ziyād Shuʿayb in the year 170 AH; he was a man of notable virtue and distinction.”