126 – al-Ṭarasūsī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad
The eminent shaykh, the leading ḥadith authority of Isfahān: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fath al-Ṭarasūsī, later al-Iṣfahānī, a Ḥanbalī jurist.
He was born in Ṣafar of the year 502 AH.
Among those from whom he heard were Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq, Maḥmūd ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ashqar, and Abū Nahshal ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿAnbarī.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Mūsā ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Yūsuf ibn Khalīl, and others.
He also granted an ijāza to Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr.
He died on the twenty-seventh of Jumādā al-Ākhira in the year 595 AH.
Aḥmad ibn Salāma reported to us, from Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl, who said: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Nuʿaym informed us; Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Abū Zurʿa narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; Muʿāwiya ibn Sallām narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salama, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, who said:
“The sun was eclipsed during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so a call was made: ‘The prayer is to be held in congregation.’”