Among those who narrated from him were: Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Baylaqī (1), Ibrāhīm ibn Sālār al-Khwārazmī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maḥbūbī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUmar al-Tirmidhī the man of letters, Burhān al-Islām ʿUmar ibn Māza, and Tāj al-Islām Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Khudābādhī. Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Faraḍī (2) is the one who informed me of this.
He died in the year 576 AH (3).
His father:
39 – Rukn al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl al-Saffārī *
The erudite scholar, pillar of the religion, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm.
He heard hadith from: his father, the imam Ismāʿīl; ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Khanb al-Bazzāz (4); ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mustaqirr al-Karminī; and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include: his son; Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Nasafī, the littérateur; and Shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿĀṣimī al-Balkhī. He lived on until 532 AH.
And his father, Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Wāʾilī, narrated from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Shurūṭī, ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī, and Abū ʿĀṣim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī.