She smiled, and the night grew radiant; I began to gather
scattered pearls now glistening in a perfect light.
He died in the environs of Balkh in 524 AH, at the age of eighty-three. (1)
322 – Ibn al-Akhshīdh, Abū Saʿd Ismāʿīl ibn al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, the trustworthy guardian of transmission, and a foremost musnid: Abū Saʿd Ismāʿīl ibn al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Akhshīdh al-Iṣfahānī, a merchant better known as al-Sarrāj.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Dhakwānī; Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Kātib; ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim al-Muqrīʾ; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Ṣāʾigh; Abū al-Faḍl al-Rāzī al-Muqrīʾ; Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-Baṭirqānī; a number of the pupils of Ibn al-Muqrīʾ; and others. He was also given the kunya Abū al-Fatḥ, a form used for him by al-Samʿānī, while Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī called him Abū Saʿd and regarded him as reliable.
Among those who narrated from him are: the author himself, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Thaqafī, Nāṣir al-Wayrj, Khalf ibn Aḥmad al-Farrāʾ, Asʿad ibn Aḥmad al-Thaqafī, and Abū—