He passed away in Ṣafar 364 AH.

108 – al-Abzārī, Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Rajāʾ *
The ḥadith scholar and leading imam, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Rajāʾ al-Naysābūrī, the bookseller, known as al-Abzārī.

He received narrations from Musaddad b. Qaṭan, al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān, Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ḥalabī, Saʿīd b. Hāshim al-Ṭabarānī, and their contemporaries. He gathered a large body of reports, transmitted copiously, and produced carefully edited collections.

Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn Manda, al-Ḥākim, and Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī.

Al-Ḥākim said: “He was one of those from whose tongue and hand the Muslims were safe.”

He began pursuing ḥadith when already advanced in years and journeyed far for it. I heard Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ jest with him, saying, “You are Bahz b. Asad,” praising his reliability and precision. He would also remark, “This shaykh has never needed a ritual bath for a lawful act,” and we would reply, “Abū ʿAlī—nor for an unlawful one.”

He died in Rajab 364 AH. He was truthful, and his narrations were received with acceptance.

Abzār (1) is one of the villages of Naysābūr.

109 – ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. Ismāʿīl al-Sulamī **
The traditionist and Qur’an reciter, Abū Hāshim al-Sulamī,