my son! You know my habit—(he had abandoned eating rice for fear that he might swallow a bone and die).
The son replied, “Eat; only good will come of it.”
So he ate, swallowed a bone, and passed away.
Ibn ʿAsākir related this episode from Jamāl al-Islām, from Ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ—others say from al-Kattānī.
His father was a Ṣūfī known by the kunya Abū Ṭāhir; he narrated ḥadith from Yūsuf al-Mayānajī.
123 – al-Ismāʿīlī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad*
The imām, preacher, and accredited authority, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Ismāʿīlī al-Naysābūrī, the judge.
He reported ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Khaffāf, Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥarbī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Salīṭī, Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī, and many others.
He also transmitted Sunan Abī Dāwūd from al-Ḥasan ibn Dāwūd ibn Riḍwān al-Samarqandī, the associate of Ibn Dāsah (1). It is said that he likewise heard it from Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī.
Among those who narrated from him were Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ al-Muʾadhdhin, Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir al-Shaḥḥāmī, his brother Wajīh, and ʿAbd al-Ghafir ibn Ismāʿīl.
Both ʿAbd al-Ghafir and al-Samʿānī deemed him reliable.
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 469 AH, having nearly reached ninety years of age.
Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us in 494 AH, through ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad, who told us that Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir told us, who said that Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm told us, who said: Abū—