Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was a ḥāfiẓ, exacting in his transmission, and he took up residence in Baghdad.” (1)
Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī and others reported that he died in Ramaḍān of the year 223 AH, at the age of sixty. (2)
I (the author) say: On that basis, his birth would probably have been in 163 AH.
231 – Al-Farwī, Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad (B, T, Q)
The imam, traditionist, and scholar, Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Farwah, a client of the Umayyads, known as al-Farwī, from Medina.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Mukharramī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Kathīr, Mālik ibn Anas, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, ʿUbaydah ibn Nāʾil, Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nuʿaym, Ibn Abī Ḥāzim, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bukhārī, Abū Bakr al-Athram, Ismāʿīl the Judge, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣāʾigh, and many more.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful, but he lost his eyesight, so on occasion he would be prompted; nonetheless, his written manuscripts are sound.”