And a number of his elevated chains (ʿawālī) have reached me, and I have extracted many reports through his transmission.
255 – al-Saffār, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm
The Imām, reliable, widely-travelled and exacting: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd ibn Mihrān, originally from Syria and later from Baghdad, nicknamed al-Saffār, the Blind.
He heard ḥadith from: Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Naffāḥ; Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿIṣmah al-Dimashqī; Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Maqdisī; Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥammād the judge, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Dāraqutnī; Abū Bakr al-Barqānī; Ḥamzah al-Sahmī; Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī; Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, and others.
Al-Barqānī said: “He was trustworthy and virtuous; his origins were in Syria. He told me that he was born in the year 289 AH.” (1)
I say: Ibn ʿAsākir did not record the year of his death, and al-Khaṭīb stated that the last audition from him was in 371 AH.
256 – Ibn Jiyyān, Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The Imām, jurist, traditionist, and master reciter: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn Muḥammad ibn Jiyyān—with a jīm—al-Baghdādī, known as al-Khallāl, the Qur’an reciter.