264 – Ibn al-Nahhās, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Miṣrī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and itinerant scholar, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Jarrāḥ al-Miṣrī, who later made his home in Nishapur.
He began studying ḥadith in the year 305 AH and transmitted from ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ʿAllān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAdī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, and many others.
No sound evidence, however, confirms his direct audition from al-Baghawī and a number of those shaykhs.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥākim, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Abū Ḥāzim al-ʿAbdawī, Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣbahānī, Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī, and many others.
Al-Ḥākim said: “He is a ḥāfiẓ who is scrupulous about truthfulness in his scholarly discussions, and he would dictate aḥādīth from memory …” until he concluded, “He passed away toward the end of the year 376 AH.”
I (the author) add: In that same year also died Abū Isḥāq al-Mustamlī—the transmitter of the Ṣaḥīḥ—, the centenarian Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar al-Simsār, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Bawwāb the Qurʾān reader, the judge ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jarrāḥī, the long-lived ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bakkāʾī, the judge ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sabanka al-Bajalī, and Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān al-Ḥayrī.