He also narrated from: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Tamṭām, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr Qashmarda al-Naysābūrī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Qurashī, Hishām ibn ʿAlī al-Sīrāfī, Bishr ibn Mūsā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Bajalī, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl al-Asfāṭī, Abū Muslim al-Kajji, Muḥammad ibn Ribḥ al-Bazzāz, ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sāmī, the “Imam of the Imams” Ibn Khuzaymah, and a great many others.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Jumayʿ al-Ghassānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, Ibn Razquwayh, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Bishrān, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Bādī, Abū ʿAlī Ibn Shādhān, Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Harawī, the scholar Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāyīnī, and many others besides them.
In Damascus he met Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā and his circle.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: “He related ḥadith in Egypt and was trustworthy.”
Al-Ḥākim remarked: “Daʿlaj the jurist was the shaykh of the people of ḥadith in his era. He established perpetual endowments for the people of ḥadith in Mecca, Baghdad, and Sijistān. His first journey was to Naysābūr, where he obtained the writings of Ibn Khuzaymah and gave legal rulings according to his school—I heard him say so—and he stayed near Mecca for a time.”
Al-Khaṭīb said: “Daʿlaj was well-off and maintained financial oversight of the hadith scholars.”
Among those from whom he narrated are: ʿUthmān al-Dārimī, Ibn Ribḥ, Ibrāhīm ibn Zuhayr al-Ḥulwānī, Isḥāq al-Ḥarbī, Muḥammad ibn Shādhān al-Jawharī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Bāghandī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qazzāz, and Aḥmad ibn Mūsā.