ʿAqīl (1). He later embraced the Shāfiʿī school and taught at the Niẓāmiyya. He studied jurisprudence under al-Shāshī and al-Ghazālī. He heard ḥadith from al-Niʿālī and Ibn al-Baṭar, and by his own recitation Ibn Kulayb heard the Ṣaḥīḥ from Abū Ṭālib al-Zaynabī.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “His intelligence was extraordinary; he could scarcely hear anything without memorising it. He solved difficult problems, and his depth of learning became proverbial. He sat to teach for a time (2) and came to be one of the leading figures of the religion. He died in middle age, in 518 AH.”

265 – Abū ʿAdnān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Rubʿī*

The venerable, long-lived and distinguished shaykh: Abū ʿAdnān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, son of the shaykh Abū ʿUmar al-Muṭahhar ibn Abī Nizār Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Bujayr al-Rubʿī, of Isfahan.

He was born in 434 AH.

He received the transmission of the Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr from Abū Bakr ibn Rīdha; he also heard from his grandfather al-Muṭahhar and from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar, and he heard the Book of al-Ruhbān.