ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan ibn Yūnus al-Asbahānī. A widely travelled, truthful narrator, and a man of learning.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣalt, Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, and a number of scholars in Baghdad; from Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī in Basra; from ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad al-Burjī; from Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh; and from various authorities in Isfahan. He transcribed an enormous amount.
Among those who narrated from him were Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq, Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Māshādhah, Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Thābit al-Khujandī (1), the long-lived Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Hammāmī, and others.
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah 466 AH, when he was in his nineties.
159 – al-ʿAṭṭār, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī *
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, and trustworthy authority, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Asbahānī, known as al-ʿAṭṭār (2), who served as the chief amanuensis for the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym.
He travelled in quest of knowledge and heard narrations from Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī; ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim al-Najjād in Basra; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurfī; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān in Baghdad; Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh; Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr al-Naqqāsh; and others of their circle in Isfahan.