In that same year there also passed away: Ṭalḥah al-Shāhid; Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Marwān al-Ḍabbī; Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Rāhib al-Nasafī—the transmitter of the “Ṣaḥīḥ” from Ḥammād ibn Shākir; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mufarrij; the vizier of Egypt, Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Killis; and others.
288 – Ibn al-Muqriʾ, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Iṣbahānī *
The shaykh, ḥāfiẓ, tireless traveller, trustworthy narrator, and foremost musnid of his time: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim ibn Zādhān al-Iṣbahānī, known as Ibn al-Muqriʾ, author of the Muʿjam and famed for his wide-ranging journeys.
He was born in 285 AH.
His first session of formal audition took place at the beginning of 300 AH.
He studied under Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr ibn Abān al-Madīnī and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Farqadī, the two disciples of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAmr al-Bajalī.
Among his teachers as well was the imām Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Mattuweyh—“the first man,” he said, “from whom I ever wrote ḥadith.”
He also heard from ʿUmar ibn Abī Ghaylān; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī; Abū Bakr al-Bāghandī; Ḥāmid ibn Shuʿayb; al-Baghawī and his circle in Baghdad; ʿAbdān al-Jawāliqī in Ahwāz; Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī in Mosul; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah in ʿAsqalān; Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzaʿī; al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad al-Janadī; Ibn al-Mundhir in Mecca; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zaydān al-Bajalī; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbbās al-Maqāniʿī in Kufa; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Salm; several others in Jerusalem; and Ibrāhīm