al-Samʿānī also transmitted from him and relates: “I asked him about his birth and he replied, ‘In the year seventy-eight (478 AH).’ He died on the day of Eid al-Fiṭr in the year eight and fifty and five hundred (558 AH). His collected poems are famous, and he even lampooned al-Ḥayṣ Bayṣ. (1)

His grandfather was the shaykh of al-Khaṭīb, the hadith scholar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān (2); he was witty, sharp-tongued, and people were wary of his barbs.

232 – Jaʿfar ibn Zayd ibn Jāmiʿ ibn Ḥusayn al-Ṭāʾī *
The distinguished imam Abū al-Faḍl al-Ṭāʾī, a Syrian from Ḥamā, also known as Abū Zayd.

He resided in Baghdad, in the district of Qaṭuftā (3).

Ibn al-Najjār says: “He heard extensively from Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Mubārak and Abū Saʿd Aḥmad, the two sons of ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣayrafī; from Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn; from Abū Ṭālib al-Yūsufī; from Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥuṣayn; and from Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Kādash. He wrote out a great many narrations in his own precise hand, compiled several takhārīj, and the senior scholars took hadith from him. He was renowned for his devotion, righteousness, and exemplary conduct.

Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī and Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zabīdī.