Al-ʿAtīqī added, “He was lax in his standards.” He passed away in Ṣafar, 396 AH. Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was very weak.” I say: through his transmission we heard the book al-Baʿth by Ibn Abī Dāwūd, the second fascicle containing Zughbah’s narration from al-Layth, and the third fascicle of the Musnad of Ibn Masʿūd by Ibn Ṣāʿid. Despite his weakness, these parts are among the loftiest chains I possess.
406 – al-Abharī, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Marzubān *
A litterateur, long-lived and trustworthy: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Marzubān al-Abharī—Abhar in the province of Isfahan—transmitted the fascicle of Luwayn from Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥazāwarī, which he heard from him in 305 AH. He was counted among the distinguished men of letters.
Those who narrated from him include Shujāʿ ibn ʿAlī al-Maṣqalī, his brother Aḥmad, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Manda, Abū ʿĪsā ibn Ziyād, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Ṭahrānī, al-Muṭahhar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Yazānī, and others—the last of them to die was Abū Bakr ibn Mājah al-Abharī.
He died in 393 AH.
407 – Ibn al-Jundī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿImrān al-Nahshalī *
The shaykh, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿImrān ibn al-Jundī al-Nahshalī al-Baghdādī.