He possessed a high-level transcript from al-Hasan ibn ʿArafa; in his day no one else had anything comparable, and, to my knowledge, he transmitted nothing apart from it.
Those who reported from him include Yūsuf al-Qawwās, Ibn Ḥasnūn al-Narsī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Burhān, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Rūzbahān, and al-Ḥākim.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said, “I heard al-ʿAtīqī deem him reliable.”
He also said, “I never heard our shaykhs speak of him except in laudatory terms.” (1)
I add: He died in 343 AH, and he must have been close to one hundred years old.
His valuable fascicle was transmitted by Ibn al-Bunn, from his grandfather, from al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ, from Ibn al-Rūzbahān, from him.
- Ibn ʿUqbah — Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad*
The Imām, the reliable authority, the ḥadith scholar: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUqbah ibn Hammām al-Shaybānī, of Kufa.
He travelled to Baghdad and related ḥadith from Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-ʿAnbas, al-Khadir ibn Abān, Sulaymān ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Nahdī, and Muṭayyin.
Those who narrated from him include al-Dāraquṭnī, Ibn Jumayʿ al-Ghassānī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Razqawayh, and others.