He heard from Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, ʿImrān ibn Bakkār, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Ḥimṣī the historian, and a number of others.
He undertook journeys in search of knowledge and attained wide learning.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus—who said, “He was reliable, and his ḥadīths were sound”—al-Maimūn ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Simsār, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Sakan, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥumayd, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ruzayq al-Baghdādī, and others.
From time to time he would come from Tinnīs to Egypt.
Ibn Yūnus recorded that he died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 331 AH.
I (the author) add: he was in his nineties, and his narrations appear in the individual fascicles.
149 – The Grandson of Duhaim, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān *
The judge, Abū ʿAlī, son of al-Qāsim, grandson of the ḥāfiẓ Duhaim (1) ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī.
He transmitted from Abū Umayya al-Ṭarsūsī, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Bayrūtī, Abū Zurʿa al-Naṣrī, and a group of others.