It was said that Ahmad ibn Hanbal held him in high esteem and venerated him.
Muhammad ibn Saʿd stated, “He died in al-Karkh, in Muharram, in the year 227 AH (1).”
His son, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, said, “My father lived seventy-seven years, lacking only a month or two (2).”
I say: In that same year the Caliph al-Muʿtaṣim, Bishr al-Hafi, Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Yarbūʿi, Saʿid ibn Mansur, al-Haytham ibn Kharijah, Ismaʿil ibn ʿAmr al-Bajali al-Isfahani, Sahl ibn Bakkar al-Basri, Abu al-Nadr al-Faradisi, and several other scholars also passed away.
Now, as for:
248 – Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah ibn Sufyan al-Jarjarāʾi * (D, Q)
He is the eminent scholar and hadith master Abu Jaʿfar, a client of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz.
Jarjaraya is a village situated between Wasit and Baghdad.
He transmitted hadith from ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Darawardi, Ibn Abi Hazim, Hushaym, and Ibn ʿUyaynah.