He transmitted profusely from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, and he alone possessed an ijāza (teaching licence) from ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Shīrūbī, who in turn narrated from the pupils of al-Aṣamm.
Among those who related hadith from him are: al-ʿIzz Muḥammad, Abū Mūsā—the son of the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī—Ismāʿīl ibn Ẓafar, Yūsuf ibn Khalīl, Abū Rashīd al-Ghazzāl, and a number of others.
By way of ijāza only, Aḥmad ibn Salāmah, al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhārī, and a group of scholars also received from him.
He died on the twenty-seventh of Dhu al-Ḥijjah, 597 AH.
- Al-Karrānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd ibn Abī Naṣr
The shaykh, centenarian, trustworthy transmitter and Musnid of Isfahan: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd ibn Abī Naṣr al-Karrānī, al-Isfahānī, known as “the Baker.”
He was born in 497 AH and lived one hundred years.
He heard hadith from al-Ḥaddād, Maḥmūd al-Ashqar, and Fāṭima al-Jūzdāniyya.
Those who narrated from him include: Badal al-Tabrīzī, Abū Mūsā—the son of the ḥāfiẓ—Ib n Khalīl, Ibn Ẓafar, and many others.
He also granted ijāza to Ibn Abī al-Khayr, Ibn al-Bukhārī, and others.
He passed away on the third of Shawwāl, in the year seven