Al-Khaṭīb said (1): “I took down ḥadith from him, and he was trustworthy.”
He told me, “I was born in the year 384 AH.”
Abū Manṣūr died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of 471 AH, and the material he personally auditioned was scant.
199 – Shāhfūr Abū al-Muẓaffar Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāyinī
The erudite scholar and mufti, Abū al-Muẓaffar Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāyinī—later al-Ṭūsī—a Shāfiʿī and the author of al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr (The Great Commentary).
He was one of the foremost authorities.
He related ḥadith from Ibn Maḥmish and from the pupils of al-Aṣamm.
Those who transmitted from him include Zāhir al-Shahhāmī and others.
He became the son-in-law of the ustādh Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī.
He died in Ṭūs in 471 AH.
I read to Ibn ʿAbbād, who reported from Abū Rūḥ: Zāhir informed us, saying, “Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad informed us, saying: Ibn Maḥmish al-Ziyādī informed us, saying: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us, saying: Aḥmad …”