He possessed a reliable audition. He passed away in Rajab of the year 519 AH, in Baghdad.
308 – Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad,
nicknamed al-Mawlā, al-Raʾīs, and al-Muʿammar; Abū al-Faḍl al-Iṣfahānī al-Thaqafī.
He received ḥadith from Abū Bakr ibn Rīdhah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Dhakwānī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Arzunānī (1), ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb, Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-ʿAyyār, Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-Bāṭirqānī, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Silafī, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Manṣūr ibn al-Zibrqān, Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad al-Wayrij, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Muṭahhir al-Ṣaydilānī, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Rajāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Mahhād, and many more.
Al-Samʿānī said: “He was upright and devout.” (2) Among the works he transmitted are: Shurūṭ al-Dhimmah (Conditions of the Covenant of Protection), Kitāb al-Sunnah (The Book of the Sunnah), al-Ḍaḥāyā (Sacrificial Animals), al-ʿAqīqah (Birth-Rites), al-Nawādir (Rare Narrations), al-ʿItq (Manumission), al-Ramy (Archery), al-Sabaq (Racing), al-Sariqah (Theft), and Fawāʾid al-ʿIrāqiyyīn (Benefits from the Iraqis) — all authored by Abū Shaykh.