ʿAbdān ibn al-Faraj ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAbdān al-Shīrāzī—later known as al-Ahwāzī. A famous and trustworthy scholar, he was distinguished by the loftiness of his chains of transmission.

He studied under his own father, under Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṣaffār, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūyah al-Azdī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jiʿābī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and others.

Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī—who cites him throughout his works—Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Thaqafī, and a number of others.

He died in Khurasan in 415 AH. His father has already been mentioned (1) in the section covering Ibn al-Muqriʾ (2).

260 – Ibn Shahryār, al-Faḍl ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Iṣbahānī

The shaykh and reliable narrator, Abū al-Qāsim al-Faḍl ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Shahryār al-Iṣbahānī, a merchant and shipmaster.

He heard hadith from ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris, from his maternal uncle al-Faḍl ibn ʿAlī ibn Shahryār, from Aḥmad ibn Bundār al-Shaʿʿār, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Jumaḥī of Mecca, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and others.

Among those who transmitted from him were Abū ʿAmr ibn Mandah, the notable Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Thaqafī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Ushtah, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Sūdhrajānī, his brother Muḥammad, and Abū Ṣādiq.