and Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd b. al-Ḥusayn al-Salīṭī (1), al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-Muʿādhī (2), nicknamed al-Aṣamm (“the Deaf”), and Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn b. Ibrāhīm al-Jammāl (3).
240 – al-Qarrāb Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad*
The Imām, ḥadīth master, exemplar, and Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Muḥammad Ismāʿīl, son of the ḥadīth master Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sarakhsī—later al-Harawī—known as al-Qarrāb (“the Leather-Seller”) and brother of the great ḥadīth scholar Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq (4).
He was one of the outstanding individuals of his era, a model of asceticism, of great stature.
Born: after 330 AH.
Among his teachers were Manṣūr b. al-ʿAbbās; Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī; Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Miqsam, the Qur’an-reciter; Abū Aḥmad b. al-Ghiṭrīfī; Abū ʿUmar b. Ḥamdān; Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim; Makhlad b. Jaʿfar al-Bāqarḥī; Bishr b. Aḥmad al-Isfarāyinī; ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā al-ʿĀṣimī (5); and others of their rank.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAṭāʾ ʿAbd al-Aʿlā b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Malīḥī, Shaykh al-Islām ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, and a number of other scholars.