316 – Ibn ʿAbdkuwayh, ʿAli ibn Yahya ibn Jaʿfar al-Isfahani
The shaykh, imam, hadith scholar, intrepid traveler, and reliable authority, Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn Yahya ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbdkuwayh al-Isfahani.
Birth: the early 330s AH.
He heard hadith from Abu Ishaq ibn Hamzah; ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Hasan ibn Bundar; Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani; Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kisaʾi; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fabbajani; Ahmad ibn Bundar al-Shaʿʿar; Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn Siyahu; Faruq ibn ʿAbd al-Kabir al-Khattabi; Muhammad ibn Maʿmar ibn Nasih; Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn ʿAbbad; Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Ahwazi; Ahmad ibn al-Qasim ibn al-Rayyan al-Lukki; Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Yusuf ibn Afrijah; ʿAli ibn al-Fadl ibn Shahrayar; Ahmad ibn ʿImran al-Ushnani of Basra; Ahmad ibn Mahmud ibn Khurrazadh; Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Daybuli in Mecca; Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Mundhir al-Madini; Ahmad ibn Sahl al-ʿAskari; and Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ayyub ibn Kushidh.
He dictated a large number of sessions; three, four, and two of these sessions have come down to me.⦗1⦘
Those who narrated from him include Abu al-ʿAlaʾ Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Qulun, Abu al-ʿAlaʾ Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbar al-Fursani, Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mihran al-Labbad, ʿAli ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn Furjah al-Farrash, and Asmaʾ bint Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mihran; all of them were among the shaykhs of al-Salafi.