He transmitted from: Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Bint Maṭar, Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kafrbaṭnānī (1), and many others.
Those who narrated from him include his son, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, Ibn Mandah, Tammām, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsir, and several others.
Al-Kattānī said, “He was trustworthy and lived a little past eighty.”
Al-Maydānī stated, “He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 349 AH.”
- Al-Isfarāyinī — al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq
The imām, ḥadith master, and accomplished scholar: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Azharī, known as al-Isfarāyinī.
His maternal uncle, the ḥadith master Abū ʿAwānah, took him on his scholarly travels.
He heard from: Abū Bakr ibn Rajāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ḍurays, Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, Aḥmad ibn Sahl, Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb the judge, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, and their peers.
Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim—who said, “He was the leading ḥadith scholar of his era and one of the people with the finest original collections” (2)—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Bālūyah, and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī.