Among those who transmitted hadith from him were: al-Faḍl ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn Ushtah, Abū Muṭīʿ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Sulaymān al-Ḥāfiẓ, and Abū al-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sūdhargānī.
Two fascicles of his dictations have come down to us, together with the book “Judges,” the book “Classes of the Ṣūfīs,” and other writings as well⦗1⦘.
He died in Ramadan of the year 414 AH.
He was one of the leading authorities on tradition—may Allah have mercy on him and be pleased with him. He passed away in his nineties.
188 – Ibn Mardawayh, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Mūsā al-Iṣbahānī *
The ḥāfiẓ, meticulous scholar, and eminent authority, the hadith master of Isfahān: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Mardawayh ibn Fūrak ibn Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar al-Iṣbahānī, author of the “Great Tafsīr,” the “History,” the “Amālī” in three hundred sittings⦗2⦘, and other works besides.
He was born in 323 AH.
He related a hadith from his father Abū ʿImrān, which the latter had heard from Ibrāhīm ibn Matwiyah,