Among those who received ḥadith from him were Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Mammūs—who was of the same generation as he—and a number of others.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad said, “I heard from him long ago; he was truthful and exacting.

We heard the greater part of what he possessed. He mastered his narrations, and his books, written in his own hand, were sound.

Most of those volumes vanished during the civil strife, and afterwards he lost his sight (1).

He passed away in 338 AH.

213 – Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamadhānī *

The imām, itinerant ḥāfiẓ, Abū Isḥāq al-Hamadhānī al-Turābī, known as Mammūs—one of the leading authorities.

He transmitted from: Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib, Abū Qilābah, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Karābīsī, Ibn Dayzīl, Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj al-Azraq, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrādhādh, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣūrī, Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī, Abū al-Zanbaʿ, Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī, Isḥāq al-Dabarī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Bawsī, and many others.

Ṣāliḥ the ḥāfiẓ mentioned him and said: “Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥasan ibn Yazīd al-Daqqāq, Abū ʿImrān Mūsā ibn Saʿīd, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, al-Faḍl ibn al-Faḍl, Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Kurjī ibn al-Qaṣṣāb, along with the senior scholars and the ḥuffāẓ.”

I heard from him together with my father, and he was trustworthy and beneficial.

I heard my father say: “I heard Abū Ḥātim al-Bustī …”