He heard from: Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr al-Isfahānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, ʿAbdān al-Jawālīqī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājah, Abū Yaʿlā, Ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqalānī, Muḥammad ibn Khuzaym, Ibn Jawṣā, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār—one of his own teachers—Ibn Shāhīn, Ibn Mandah, Abū Bakr al-Jawzaqī, al-Dāraqutnī, al-Ḥākim, the judge ʿAbd al-Jabbār the Muʿtazilī, Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muzakkī, and a number of others.

Al-Ḥākim said: “He came to Nīshāpūr in the year three, where he heard the Musnad from Ibn Shīrawayh, and he remained there for two years.”

His journeys throughout the provinces were well known. He was counted among the noted righteous (1) and among the ḥuffāẓ; he compiled catalogues of shaykhs and topical collections.

He died at Asadābād in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year seven and forty and three hundred.

Al-Khaṭīb said: “He was a ḥāfiẓ, precise, and exceedingly prolific (2).”

Al-Musallam ibn Muḥammad informed us in his book: Abū al-Yaman al-Kindī informed us; Abū Manṣūr al-Shaybānī informed us; Abū Bakr the ḥāfiẓ informed us; al-Azharī informed me; al-Dāraqutnī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār narrated to us; al-Zubayr ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Bishr and ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad both narrated to me, saying:

“Hāshim ibn Marthad narrated to us; I heard Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn say: ‘Al-Shāfiʿī is truthful; there is no fault in him (3).’”