59 – Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Ṭabarī * (Kh, D)
The eminent imam and leading ḥāfiẓ of his age in the Egyptian lands, Abū Jaʿfar al-Miṣrī, better known as Ibn al-Ṭabarī.
His father was a soldier from Āmul in Ṭabaristān.
Abū Jaʿfar became a foremost authority in this field—rarely did eyes behold his equal—combining unimpeachable reliability with remarkable expertise.
Birth: Egypt, 170 AH, as recorded by Ibn Yūnus.
He narrated from Ibn Wahb, transmitting copiously from him;
from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, to whom he travelled and with whom he performed the pilgrimage; he then went on to Yemen and reported extensively from ʿAbd al-Razzāq. He also related ḥadith from Ibn Abī Fudayk, ʿAnbasah ibn Khālid al-Aylī, Ḥaramī ibn ʿUmārah, Asad ibn Mūsā, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dhimmārī, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān, Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-Jārī, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAffān, Salāmah ibn Rūḥ, and many others besides.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Ramlī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā al-Zamin—who was the elder—