In Herat, [he studied] under the judge Abu ʿAmir al-Azdi, Abu Nasr al-Tiryaqi, and Abu Bakr al-Ghawraji, all of Herat … . In the original of al-Saji, there was a hearing (samaʿ) of the venerable righteous shaykh Abu al-Fath ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Bazzar — meaning al-Karukhi — together with him, from the three aforementioned shaykhs. Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Salami copied a reproduction of that from the handwriting of Shaykh Abu Nasr al-Muʾtaman al-Saji, may God have mercy on him, in the first part of this copy, and he collated this copy against the original with the aforementioned Shaykh Abu al-Fath. Among those present at this collation were Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn al-Sammak the Qurʾan reader, and Abu Talib al-Mubarak ibn ʿAli ibn Muhammad ibn Khudayr. That took place in the year five hundred and thirty-six [1131–32 CE], in the mosque facing the Darb al-Dawabb from the east of Baghdad, namely at al-Nubaqa.

Then on the same folio came the following text: "He copied it for himself in the City of Peace [Baghdad] … in the month of Ramadan of the year five hundred and forty [1145–46 CE]."

In the sixth part, on the title page, there is a hearing (samaʿ) with the same date, upon al-Karukhi, recited by Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn Yaʿish ibn Saʿd al-Qawariri.

In the tenth part, at the end of one of its folios, there is a hearing upon al-Karukhi dated the year five hundred and thirty-eight [1143–44 CE], in the Ribat of al-Burhan, in the handwriting of the reader Yusuf ibn Abi Saʿid ibn Yusuf al-Marzubani al-Hamdani.

And another hearing upon al-Karukhi, dated the year five hundred and forty [1145–46 CE], recited by Abu Bakr al-Mubarak ibn Kamil al-Khaffaf, attended by a group of people.