from Ibn Ṭalḥa al-Niʿālī and al-Mubārak ibn al-Ṭuyūrī.
Ibn al-Najjar said: Ibn al-Samʿānī was mistaken, for he treated him as Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥarbī and imagined that he was ʿUmar’s brother through their father.
Ibn al-Najjar also said (1): Ibn al-Akhdar and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn al-Bazzāz narrated to us from him. He was righteous and devout, a memorizer of the Book of Allah, often moved to tears. He led the people in prayer and washed the dead solely for Allah’s sake, and he persisted in that for a long time.
- Al-Labbān, Abū al-Makārim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī
The judge, scholar, and leading transmitter of Isfahan, Abū al-Makārim Aḥmad, son of Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, descendant of the imām ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, son of the traditionist ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Taymī, al-Iṣfahānī, al-Shurūṭī, known as Ibn al-Labbān (2).
He was born in Ṣafar of the year 507 AH.
On another occasion he said he was born in 506 AH.
He descends from Taymullāh ibn Thaʿlaba.
Others maintain that he was born in 504 AH, a view reported by the ḥāfiẓ al-Ḍiyāʾ.