Ibn Aḥmad al-Jarjarā’ī, known as al-Mufīd, Ibn al-Muẓaffar, al-Dāraquṭnī, and a host of others.
He devoted himself to ḥadīth.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Khaṭīb, the judge Abū Yaʿlā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabʿūn al-Qayrawānī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Kāshghārī (1), Ḥamd ibn Ismāʿīl al-Hamadhānī, al-Mubārak ibn al-Ṭuyūrī, and many others.
He composed a work on the Divine attributes, but never revised it.
Al-Khaṭīb (2) said: “We wrote down ḥadīths from him; he was truthful and possessed many books.”
He was born in 356 AH, and he died in Shaʿbān 444 AH.
13 – ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī*
The shaykh, the imām, the reliable, long-lived, and righteous scholar—Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Fārisī, later al-Naysābūrī.
He was born in the mid-350s AH.
He narrated from Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAmruwayh al-Julūdī his copy of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, which he heard from him in 365 AH.
He also transmitted from: