339 – al-Ṣaydalānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Iṣfahānī
The venerable, long-lived shaykh and leading musnid of his day, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Iṣfahānī, better known as al-Ṣaydalānī.
In 474 AH he was granted ijāzah by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAfīf al-Būshanjī Kulār; Bībā bt. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Harthamiyyah; Shaykh al-Islām ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī; the ascetic Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿUmayrī; and Najīb ibn Maymūn al-Wāsiṭī.
In 484 AH he auditioned ḥadīth from Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāfiẓ, Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī, al-Raʾīs al-Thaqafī, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Sumayr, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Faḍlawayh, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sukkarī; three of these had themselves heard from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jurjānī.
He also received narrations from ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Simsār, Makkī al-Karajī, and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Madanī.
Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Nāyinī compiled for him a fascicle entitled “Laʿālī al-Qalāʾid” (Pearls of Necklaces).
Those who transmitted on his authority include ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Sharābī; the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī; ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib; and al-ʿImād Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Amīrkā, who lived on until after 630 AH.
Abū Jaʿfar (1) also granted ijāzah to al-ʿAlam Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, Karīmah al-Mayṭūrīyyah, and ʿAjībah al-Bāqdāriyyah.