and Bāsim, his brother; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Mā Ghammah; Abū Muslim al-Kajjī; Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Miṣrī al-Qaṭṭān; Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Ḥaddād; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ramlī al-Qalānsī; al-Ḥasan ibn Sahl al-Mujawwiz; Zakariyyā ibn Ḥamdawayh al-Ṣaffār; ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ḍabbī; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Tammār; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Mundhir al-Qazzāz, the companion of Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḍubʿī; Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Ghallābī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣāʾigh; Abū ʿIlāthah Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Khālid al-Ḥarrānī; and Muḥammad ibn Asad ibn Yazīd al-Aṣbahānī—he transmitted to him from Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī—together with Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh Durrān, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Rumāḥis, and Hārūn ibn Mallūl.
He collected ḥadith in the Two Sanctuaries, Yemen, the principal cities of Syria and Egypt, Baghdad, Kūfah, Baṣrah, Isfahān, Khūzistān, and other regions besides. He later settled in Isfahān and remained there for nearly sixty years, disseminating knowledge and composing books. He did not reach Iraq until after he had finished with Egypt, Syria, the Ḥijāz, and Yemen; had he begun with Iraq, he would have gained an even more exalted chain of transmission.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī; the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿUqdah—both of whom had been his own teachers—; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaḥḥāf; Ibn Mandah; Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh; Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Basṭāmī; Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣbahānī; Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jārūdī; Abū Saʿīd al-Naqqāsh; Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Dhakwānī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azdī; al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Marzbān; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Fādhashāh; Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaffār; Maʿmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Ziyād; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ribāṭī; al-Faḍl ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Shahrīyār; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad al-Bāṭirqānī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Aṣbahānī; ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbdkuwayh; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Shammah; Bishr ibn Muḥammad al-Mīhanī, and a host of others—the last of them to die was Abū—