Those who narrated from him were: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Siwār the Qurʾān-reciter, and Khālid ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid the merchant.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was truthful, possessed many auditions, and I wrote from him.” (1)
He lived for eighty-four years and died in Jumādā I of the year 435 AH.
In that same year there also passed away: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Mīmāsī, the transmitter of the Muwattaʾ as related by Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr; and the commentator on the Ṣaḥīḥ, Abū al-Qāsim al-Muhallab (2) ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṣufrah.
339 – Ibn Fādshāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Iṣfahānī
The shaykh, leading authority, and musnid, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Fādshāh al-Iṣfahānī, the Second (3).
He received extensive instruction from Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, attending the sessions together with his grandfather al-Ḥusayn in 354 AH.
He transmitted the entire Muʿjam al-Kabīr from al-Ṭabarānī, along with other works.
Those who narrated from him include: Maʿmar ibn Aḥmad al-Lunbānī (4), al-Muḥassad ibn Muḥammad al-Iskāf, Ṭāhir ibn Maḥmūd al-Ṣabbāgh, and Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Khirqī,