who was killed at ʿArafah; and the leading Mālikī teacher Abū al-Qāsim Makhlūf ibn Jārah al-Iskandarānī; the head of the Ḥanbalīs, Nāṣiḥ al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Mannī; and the dignitary Ṣadr Majd al-Dīn Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣāḥib.

68 – al-Thaqafī, Abū al-Faraj Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd ibn Saʿd*
The shaykh, senior transmitter, eminent scholar: Abū al-Faraj Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd ibn Saʿd al-Thaqafī, the Isfahānī, the Sufi.

Born: in the year fourteen (1).

He heard a large body of hadith from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād—who, incidentally, was still alive in the first year (2)—and he attended the sessions of Ḥamzah ibn al-ʿAbbās al-ʿAlawī and Abū ʿAdnān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Nizār.

He also received narration from Fāṭimah al-Jawzdāniyyah; Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭabāṭabā; his maternal grandfather, the hadith master Ismāʿīl al-Taymī—he still owns from him a copy of the book al-Targhīb wa’l-Tarhīb (Encouragements and Warnings); al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Khallāl; ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ḥasanābādhī; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Thaqafī; and several others.

When he grew old he travelled widely, disseminating his transmissions in Isfahān, Aleppo, Mosul, and Damascus.