Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukaynah; Ibn Ṭabarzad; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān, the grandson of Ibn Hadiyyah; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Minaynā; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Mubārak the judge; Ismāʿīl ibn Hibat Allāh; al-Ḥasan ibn Muslim al-Fārisī, the ascetic; and Turk ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAṭṭār—the last person known to have narrated from him.
- Al-Taymī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl
The Imām, erudite scholar, ḥadith master, Shaykh al-Islām—Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir al-Qurashī, al-Taymī, later al-Ṭalḥī (1), from Isfahān—nicknamed “Qiwām al-Sunnah” and author of the work al-Targhīb wa’l-Tarhīb (Encouragements and Warnings).
He was born in 457 AH.
He heard ḥadith from: Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda; ʿĀʾishah bint al-Ḥasan; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭayyān (2); Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rirā; the judge Abū Manṣūr ibn Shukruwayh; Abū ʿĪsā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād; Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm, the ḥadith master; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Simsār; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dhakwānī; the chief Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Thaqafī—and their cohort in Isfahān; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan; and a number of others.