He heard from Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbdak, Muḥammad ibn Sahl ibn Zanjalah, Hārūn ibn Abī Hazārī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dīnawarī, ʿAmr ibn Salamah, and many who came after them.

In Baghdad he received hadith from ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Abū Bakr al-Ṣaghānī, and Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythama; in Kūfa from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān, his brother Muḥammad, and Ibn Abī al-ʿAnbas; in Mecca from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his contemporaries; and in Ṣanʿāʾ from Ibrāhīm ibn Barra, al-Dabarī, and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā.

He made two journeys to Iraq and wrote down an untold number of narrations, both with elevated and with lower chains.

Ibn ʿUqda selected three fascicles from his material. He was not granted a son, but he did have daughters.

He died in 335 AH (1).

I say: Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar—the grandfather of al-Khalīlī—al-Zubayr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī Zurʿah Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mattuyah, Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad ibn Māk al-Nassāj, Abū Ṭāhir ʿUbaydullāh ibn Khusrmāh al-Ḥanafī, and the scholars of Qazwīn and Rayy.

Al-Khalīlī said: I heard ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Māk say, “I heard ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Mihruwayh say, ‘I heard Ibn Abī Khaythama say: I asked Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn about Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm, and he replied, ‘He is sound and trustworthy.’’”

I say: Through his chain we have received Abū ʿUbayd’s Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān with an elevated isnād.

220 – al-Jawzī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar *

The hadith scholar and trustworthy narrator Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥammūyah al-Jawzī al-Baghdādī.