Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Furak ibn ʿAtāʾ al-Iṣbahānī, nicknamed al-Qabbāb—the one who crafts qubba, that is, maḥāra (1).
He lived for almost a hundred years. He heard ḥadīth from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jayrānī in the year 278 AH, and from Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Thaqafī, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Sallām.
He studied Qur’anic recitation with Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Shanabūdh and later sat to teach it himself.
Among those who transmitted from him were the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym, al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad al-Khayyāṭ, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Mihrān al-Ṣaḥḥāf, Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Muʿaddil, his son Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Kātib, and others.
Those who recited to him include Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Marzubān and others.
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 370 AH, and I know of no fault in him.
180 – al-Zabībī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʿfar
The shaykh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʿfar ibn Bayān