Al-Rūdhbārī, who settled in Ṣūr (Tyre).
He narrated from al-Baghawī, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, and al-Maḥāmilī.
Transmitting from him were al-Sakan ibn Jumayʿ—together with his father—, Ibn Bākawayh, ʿAlī ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Ṣūrī, and a number of others. He was the sister’s son of Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī.
Al-Qushayrī said, “He was the shaykh of Syria in his time; he died in Tyre in 369 AH.”
Al-Sulamī remarked, “He mastered several branches of learning—such as the Qurʾānic readings, jurisprudence, and the science of spiritual reality—and displayed distinctive qualities of austerity that raised him above his peers.”
Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir said, “He transmitted hadiths in which he made glaring mistakes.”
162 – Al-Isfarāyinī, Abū Sahl Bishr ibn Aḥmad ibn Bishr
The imam, hadith scholar, reliable authority, indefatigable traveler, and musnid of his age: Abū Sahl Bishr ibn Aḥmad ibn Bishr ibn Maḥmūd al-Isfarāyinī, the dehqān, the leading notable of Isfarāyin and one celebrated for courage and valor.
He studied with Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Dhuhlī; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rajāʾ; Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Shāmātī; Aḥmad ibn Sahl; al-Ḥasan ibn Sahl—whose Musnad was read aloud to him—; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī, later al-Baghdādī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājiya; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī; and Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, from whom he likewise received the Musnad.