while the second session was chaired by the Imām (1), who related material on the authority of Maḥmūd b. Isḥāq.
He also narrated from Sahl b. al-Sarī, al-Haytham b. Kulayb, ʿAlī b. Quraysh, and ʿAbd Allāh al-Ustādh.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥākim, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Narsi, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. al-Maʾmūn, and a number of others.
He was counted among the foremost ḥadith scholars. Abū al-ʿAlāʾ said, “He was one of the ḥuffāẓ.” He passed away in 395 AH—another source adds: in the month of Jumādā al-Ākhira—at the age of eighty-three.
53 – Ibn al-Ismāʿīlī, Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm*
The erudite master and leading authority of the Shāfiʿīs: Abū Saʿd Ismāʿīl, son of the Imām, Shaykh al-Islām Abū Bakr (2) Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. Ismāʿīl b. al-ʿAbbās al-Ismāʿīlī—of Jurjān, a Shāfiʿī, and a prolific author.
He was born in 333 AH.
He received ḥadith from his father, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Aḥmad b. Kāmil al-Qāḍī, Ibn Duḥaym al-Shaybānī, ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ al-Makkī, Abū Aḥmad b. ʿAdī, and others of their generation.