Among those who studied Qur’anic recitation with him were al-Shadhāʾī, Ibn Abī Hāshim, and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said, “He was firm in his religion yet harsh in disposition; for that reason very little narration was spread from him.” (1)

Even so, he authored and compiled a number of works.

He was born, approximately, in 257 AH and died in Muḥarram 336 AH.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad informed us; al-Kindī informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarqandī informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Maniyābī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Mujabbir narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Munādī narrated to us; al-Ṣāghānī narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb narrated to me; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zahr narrated from Layth, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, who said:

“We used to visit Abū Saʿīd and ask him questions. He would say to us, ‘Welcome to the people concerning whom the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—left a charge. I heard the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—say: “People will come to you seeking understanding, so grant them understanding and teach them well.”’ (2)

Suhaymān ibn Abī ʿUmar the judge informed us; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī informed us; al-Sallafī informed us; Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥsin informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās informed us; Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Munādī informed us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to me, and my brother Abū Jaʿfar and my uncle Ibrāhīm informed me. They said:

“Yaḥyā ibn al-Mubārak al-ʿAdawī narrated to us from Ibn Jurayj, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, from Umm Salama, who said: ‘The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—used to recite “Malik Yawm ad-Dīn” (Owner of the Day of Judgment) [al-Fātiḥah 1:3] without an alif.’”