until the year 464 AH.

Others say that the judge Muḥammad in fact remained alive until the year 439, and that he sought the help of the vizier Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zubaydī, of ʿĪsā ibn Ḥajjāj al-Ḥaḍramī, and of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Hawzanī. He left two sons: Ismāʿīl, who was killed in an engagement (1), and al-Muʿtaḍid, who assumed power after him.

355 – al-Ardastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUbayd Allāh *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and jurist Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Shahrayār al-Ardastānī, later al-Iṣbahānī, author of Dalāʾil al-Samʿiyya ʿalā al-Masāʾil al-Sharʿiyya (The Scriptural Proofs for Juridical Questions), a work in three volumes.

He transmitted from: Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Jamīl; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Baghdādī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jishnas; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAbqasī; Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī; Abū Aḥmad al-Faraḍī; Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣarṣarī; Ibrāhīm ibn Khurshīd Qawluh; and a number of others.

His chains of authority reach down to Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ and those of similar rank.

He would set up disputations with the followers of Abū Ḥanīfa and Mālik, championing his own imam al-Shāfiʿī, yet he offered no commentary on the chains of transmission.

Hidden within his book are insights that bear witness to his mastery and prodigious memory.

Those who narrated from him include the ḥāfiẓ Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, and others.