and—at the age of ninety-nine—the musnid of Isfahan, Abū Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khurshīdh Qulah (1).

157 – al-Shaybānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr

The shaykh, scholar and educator, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Shaybānī, originally from Sāmarrāʾ and later a resident of Damascus, a cloth-merchant.

He received ḥadith from Ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥaṣāʾirī, Khaythama ibn Sulaymān, ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Dhahabī, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Adhraʿī, and many others besides.

Those who narrated from him include al-ʿAtīqī, ʿAlī ibn Ṣaṣrā, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī, and others.

Al-Kattānī said: “He wrote copiously, yet doubts were raised about his alleged meeting with Abū Isḥāq ibn Abī Thābit, and he was accused of Muʿtazilite leanings.”

He died in Rajab, 410 AH (2).

I add: He left a number of single-volume booklets (ajzāʾ) in circulation, but I have only come across his narrations with a descending chain of transmission.

In that same year there also died: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Bālūwayh (3); Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī (4), the Persian; Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī (5); and Ibn Maḥmish al-Ziyādī (6),