ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Yāsir al-Jawbarī (1); Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Murrī (2); Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ghālib al-Barqānī (3); Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Shubānah (4); and the ascetic of his age, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Kharqānī (5).
302 – Ibn Muṣʿab Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-Taymī
The shaykh, the trustworthy, Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Muṣʿab b. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Muṣʿab b. Isḥāq, a descendant of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbayd Allāh al-Taymī; an Isfahani merchant and the last of the senior shaykhs.
Birth: in the early 330s AH.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. Fāris; Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Simsār; Shākir b. ʿUmar al-Muʿaddal; Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan al-Kisāʾī; Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī; and others.
Transmitters from him include: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Bishruwayh; Abū al-Fatḥ Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥaddād; Abū Saʿd Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Muṭarriz; Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Shahrayār; the Qurʾān-reciter Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, and several others.
He was one of the leading notables of Isfahan, endowed with many waqf properties, and he was the uncle of the ḥāfiẓ’s mother.