Those who transmitted from him included Ibn Jumayʿ, Ibn Mandah, Tammām al-Rāzī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Kāmil, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr, Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr, and many others besides.

Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī said, “He was one of the notables of Damascus—among its foremost worshippers and scholars.”

ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ṣāʾigh related: “I heard Abū Yaʿqūb al-Adhraʿī say, ‘I asked Allah to take away my sight, and I became blind (1). When I found ritual purification difficult, I asked Allah to restore my vision, and He, by His gracious favor, returned it to me.’ ”

Abū Yaʿqūb passed away on the Day of Sacrifice in 344 AH.

ʿUmar ibn al-Qawwās informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad al-Qāḍī, in our presence, informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāb narrated to us; Ibn Jumayʿ narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Adhraʿī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī narrated to us; Zuhayr ibn ʿAbbād narrated to us; Manṣūr ibn ʿAmmār narrated, saying:

Solomon—peace be upon him—said, “Indeed, the one who conquers his own desires is mightier than the man who single-handedly captures a city.”

272 – al-ʿAbadānī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Ayyūb *

The veteran ḥadith scholar and long-lived shaykh, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Ayyūb ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿAbdah al-ʿAbadānī (2).