He passed away in the month of Rajab, 494 AH, at the age of ninety—short by a few months.
104 – Ibn Ashtah, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Aḥmad *
The trustworthy shaykh and senior transmitter, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī, Ibn Ashtah al-Iṣfahānī, the scribe.
He studied under: the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī; ʿAlī ibn Maylah, the specialist in inheritance law; Ibn ʿAqīl al-Bāwardī; al-Faḍl ibn Shahriyār; and several others.
Those who narrated from him include Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī, Abū Saʿd ibn al-Baghdādī, and Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 491 AH, at the age of eighty-two.
In the same year there also died: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rāzī, later of Egypt, known as Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (1); the devotee Aḥmad ibn Sahl al-Sarrāj in Nīshāpūr; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bashruwayh, the ḥadith scholar (2); the musnid of the age, Ṭirād al-Zaynabī (3); Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāʾīnī, the ḥadith scholar of Damascus (4); and the ḥāfiẓ Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad.