Abu Dawud and others judged him trustworthy.
He was a man of Sunnah, knowledge, and insight.
He died in 228 AH, having nearly reached the age of eighty.
His son, Sawwar ibn ʿAbd Allah, the judge of Basra, passed away in 245 AH (1).
He met ʿAbd al-Warith al-Tannuri and the like, and he is counted among the teachers of Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, and al-Nasaʾi.
136 – Ismaʿil ibn ʿAmr ibn Najih al-Bajali*
A Kufan who settled in Isfahan, its senior shaykh and chief authority.
He was born in the early 130s AH.
He heard hadith from Malik ibn Mighwal, Kamil Abu al-ʿAlaʾ, Misʿar ibn Kidam, Sufyan al-Thawri, Shayban the Philologist, ʿAbd al-Ghaffar ibn al-Qasim, Fudayl ibn Marzuq, and others.
He lived a long life and, in his later years, stood alone as the last of his generation.
Among those who narrated from him were Ahmad ibn al-Furat, Mahmud ibn Ahmad ibn al-Faraj, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Zakariyya, Ibrahim ibn Naʾilah, Muhammad ibn Nusair al-Madini, Muhammad ibn ʿAli al-Farqadi, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Saffar, and many scholars of Isfahan.
Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Mandah said: “I heard Ibrahim ibn Urmah mention …”