al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-ʿUdhri;
and in Kūfah he studied with: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-ʿUṭāridī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥārithī, and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān al-ʿĀmirī.
He also transmitted al-Shāfiʿī’s work al-Umm on the authority of al-Rabīʿ.
He lived to a great age, his fame spread far and wide, and students flocked to him.
Everything he taught he conveyed from his own dictation, for deafness befell him when he was a young man of about twenty-three, shortly after returning from his travels. The condition worsened until he could no longer hear even the bray of a donkey.
He continued narrating hadith for seventy-six years (1).
Among those who reported from him are: al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Qabbānī, Abū Ḥāmid al-Aʿmashī (2) — both older than he — Ḥassān ibn Muḥammad the jurist, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, the imām Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAnbarī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandah, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Aṣbahānī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Maḥmish, Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muzakkī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Sarrāj, Abū Ṣādiq Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Fawāris al-ʿAṭṭār, the jurist Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shīrāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rajāʾ the littérateur, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Shādhyākhī, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Shabīb al-Fāmī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muʿāwiyah al-ʿAṭṭār, Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sūsī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb the exegete, and Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdān,
as well as Abū al-Ṭayyib Sahl ibn