ibn al-Qāsim al-ʿAtakī, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq al-Khurasānī, Jaʿfar al-Khuldī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hamadhānī, and other scholars of their rank in Nishapur, Hamadhān, Baghdad, and elsewhere.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, his grandson Ḥakīm ibn Aḥmad al-Isfarāyīnī, and a number of others. He died in 414 AH.
186 – al-Yazdī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad*
The Imām and judge: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Marzubān al-Yazdī, long-time resident of Isfahān.
He narrated from his father; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Fāris; ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl ibn Shahryār; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ayyūb; Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl; Abū Bakr al-Jiʿābī; al-Ṭabarānī; Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd; and Fārūq al-Khaṭṭābī.
Those who reported from him include ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mandah; ʿAlī ibn Shujāʿ; al-Khaṣīb ibn Qatādah; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Madīnī; and others whom Yaḥyā ibn Mandah lists in his biography, adding:
“He is trustworthy, his statements are accepted; a man of firmly established principles, outstanding intellect, piety, and gravity.”
He passed away in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 411 AH.