187 – al-Naqqāsh, Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr*
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, accomplished scholar, and firmly reliable authority: Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr ibn Mahdī al-Iṣbahānī, the Ḥanbalī, nicknamed al-Naqqāsh.
He was born sometime after 330 AH.
Among those from whom he heard hadith were his maternal grandfather Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ayyūb al-Tamīmī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Fāris, Aḥmad ibn Maʿbd al-Simsār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā al-Khashshāb, Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, al-Ṭabarānī, and many others.
In Baghdad he studied under Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Ibn Miqsam (1), Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf, and Ibn Muḥrim (2).
In Basra he heard from Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Hujaymī, Fārūq al-Khaṭṭābī, and Ḥabīb al-Qazzāz.
In Kūfa his teachers included the judge Nadhīr ibn Jināḥ al-Muḥāribī, Ṣabāḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Nahdī (3), and several others.
In Marw he narrated from Ḥāḍir ibn Muḥammad al-Faqīh; in Jurjān from Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī; in Bihrāt from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasnawayh and Abū Manṣūr al-Azharī; in Dīnawar from Ibn al-Sunnī; and likewise during his travels through the Two Sanctuaries, Nishapur, Nahāwand, Isfarāyīn, and ʿAskar Mukram.
He authored several works and delivered public dictations.