I said: He only heard from al-Taʾī when he was twenty years old; had he begun receiving transmissions in his childhood, he would have come to us with al-Maḥāmilī and his circle.
225 – al-Ribāṭī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad*
The eminent shaykh Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Iṣbahānī, known as al-Ribāṭī.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Riqqāʿī—who narrated from Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Bāghandī—ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Bundār; Abū Bakr al-Jiʿābī; and al-Ṭabarānī.
He visited Jerusalem and held dictation sessions there.
Among those who transmitted from him are ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Sulaym al-Muʿallim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mardawayh, and a number of others.
He died in Shaʿbān 420 AH.
226 – al-Musabbiḥī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad**
The great emir, ʿIzz al-Mulk, nicknamed al-Mukhtār: Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd (1) Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Musabbiḥī, the soldier.