He also heard the collected works of ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn ʿAtaʾ from Yahya ibn Abi Talib.
He received the compilations of Zaʾida as well as the Sunan of Abu Ishaq al-Fazari from Abu Bakr al-Saghani.
He took the book al-Ilal, authored by ʿAli ibn al-Madini, from Hanbal (1).
He heard Maʿani al-Qurʾan from Muhammad ibn al-Jahm al-Simari.
He heard al-Tarikh from ʿAbbas al-Duri, after which he returned to Khurasan at the age of thirty (2).

I heard him say, “I taught the book Maʿani al-Qurʾan in the year two-hundred and seventy-something AH” (3).

The hafiz Abu Hamid al-ʿAmashi said: “We transcribed from Abu al-ʿAbbas ibn Yaʿqub al-Warraq in the session of Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Farraʾ in 275 AH” (4).

Al-Hakim said: I heard Muhammad ibn al-Fadl ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaimah say—I heard my grandfather, and he was asked about receiving the book al-Mabsut from Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Asamm—whereupon he replied, “Listen to him, for he is trustworthy; I saw him listening alongside his father in Egypt, and his father verified his audition” (5).

Al-Hakim also said: I heard Yahya ibn Mansur the judge say—I heard Abu Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdi—and a group had gathered asking him to remain in Nishapur so they could read al-Mabsut with him. He exclaimed, “Glory be to Allah! You already have with you the reliable, dependable transmitter of this book, Abu al-ʿAbbas …"