Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Akhram al-Madīnī—later al-Naysābūrī—al-Sandalī, the mu’adhdhin.
His birth: in Rajab of the year 405 AH.
He heard hadith from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muzakkī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Sarrāj, Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī, Abū Saʿīd al-Ṣayrafī, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Zāhid, Abū Ṣādiq Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Shādhān al-ʿAṭṭār, the master Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāʾīnī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Manjūyah, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ, and a number of others. He convened dictation sessions that were attended by the notable figures of the city.
Those who narrated from him include ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Furāwī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-ʿAṣṣārī, ʿUmar ibn al-Ṣaffār, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zāhir, the minister Saʿīd ibn Sahl al-Falakī, and others.
ʿAbd al-Ghāfir says in his History: “A devout, virtuous, and eminent shaykh, one of the disciples of Imām Abū Muḥammad al-Juwaynī. He lived in the Inner City, remained constant to its mosque for years, kept apart from people, and seldom went out. A great many related hadith from him, and he held dictation assemblies. He died on the eighteenth of Muḥarram, in the year 494 AH.”
In that same year there also died:
85 – Asʿad ibn Masʿūd al-ʿUtbī al-Naysābūrī,
a descendant of ʿUtbah ibn Ghazwān, the Companion.