He narrated from: Yaʿqūb al-Jaṣṣāṣ, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAyyāsh, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, and Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār. Those who transmitted from him include: Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Kafratābī, Rashāʾ ibn Naẓīf, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥinnāʾī, and Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī. Al-Khaṭīb (1) graded him trustworthy. He died in 401 AH in Damascus.

The two companions:

92 – Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Umawī *

The pair were both ḥadith masters, eminent Imams, and inseparable friends. The first of them is Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbaydah ibn Maymūn, an Umayyad client from Toledo.

He heard, in Toledo, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Umayyah and his peers; and, in Cordoba, from Aḥmad ibn ʿAwn Allāh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mufarrij, ʿAbbās ibn Aṣbagh, and Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Muʾmin.

The two of them then journeyed together to the East, performed the pilgrimage, and received narrations from Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Muhandis, Abū ʿAdī ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī, Abū Bakr al-Udhfūʾī, and many others. Thereafter Ibn Maymūn returned to Toledo.

Ibn Maẓāhir said: “He was a man of knowledge and insight, a memoriser of fiqh, a transmitter of hadith, keen-minded in every discipline; possessed of upright manners and refinement together with asceticism, merit, and scrupulousness; devoted to the path of the Hereafter, and he never married—until he said:”