Sources for his biography:
1 – “Khulāsat al-Athar fī Aʿyān al-Qarn al-Ḥādī ʿAshar,” by Muḥammad ibn Faḍl Allah al-Muḥibbī (d. 1111 AH).
2 – “al-Naʿt al-Akmal li-Aṣḥāb al-Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal,” by al-Kamāl al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 1214 AH).
3 – “ʿUnwān al-Majd fī Tārīkh Najd,” by the historian ʿUthmān ibn Bishr (d. 1290 AH).
4 – “al-Suḥub al-Wābila ʿalā Ḍarāʾiḥ al-Ḥanābila,” by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥumayd al-Najdī (d. 1295 AH).
5 – “Mukhtaṣar Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila,” by Muḥammad Jamīl ibn ʿUmar al-Shaṭṭī (d. 1379 AH).
6 – “al-Aʿlām,” by Khayr al-Dīn al-Ziriklī.
7 – “Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn,” by ʿUmar Riḍā Kahāla.