and the grammarian who resided in Ramla, Munir ibn ‘Aṭiyyah in Caesarea, and al-Darrāb in Egypt.
From him ḥadith were transmitted by ‘Abd al-Muḥsin al-Shīḥī and Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāyīnī.
The two ḥadith masters Abū Naṣr al-Sijzī and ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Nakhshabī compiled selected narrations from him.
The last person to relate from him was Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Rāzī, author of the Sudāsiyyāt.
He passed away in Jumada al-Ula of the year 445 AH.
444 – Ibn al-Labbān, Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī *
The erudite scholar, Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, great-grandson of the ḥadith expert ‘Abd Allah ibn Muḥammad, himself a descendant of the “Scholar of Isfahan,” al-Nu‘mān ibn ‘Abd al-Salām al-Taymī.
He narrated from Ibn al-Muqriʾ, al-Mukhalṣi, Aḥmad ibn Firās, and others.
He kept close company with Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī and Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyīnī, excelled in uṣūl (legal theory) and furūʿ (positive law), recited the Qur’an in its various modes, authored several works, and served as judge of Īdhaj.
Al-Khaṭīb held him in great esteem, saying, “We wrote ḥadith from him, and he was one of the repositories of knowledge.”