He maintained a large study-circle in the Great Mosque of Damascus, where pupils would recite to him from the dawn prayer until noon.

Al-Dānī said: Among those who presented their Qurʾān reading to him were Aḥmad ibn Budhan, Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Shadhaʾī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shanabūdhī, Muḥammad ibn al-Khalīl, Ṣāliḥ ibn Idrīs, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Bishr al-Anṭākī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAṭiyya, Muẓaffar ibn Barhām, ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Dārānī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥujr, and a host whose number cannot be counted.

I add: among them were Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jubnī, Salāmah al-Muṭarriz, and Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Mihrān.

ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn al-Ḥasan mentioned him but erred, calling him ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Mur.

ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Dārānī said: When Ibn al-Akhram arrived in Baghdad, Ibn Mujāhid ordered his students to frequent Ibn al-Akhram (1).

Al-Shanabūdhī said: I read to him, and I never met anyone with a better command of the Qurʾān (2) or a stronger memory. He had memorised a great deal of exegesis and linguistic meanings, and he told me that al-Akhfash had made him memorise the Qurʾān (3).

Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sulamī said: One night, before dawn, I got up to secure my turn with Ibn al-Akhram, but I found that thirty reciters had beaten me to it. He said, “My turn did not come until the ʿAṣr prayer.” (4)