In that same year there also passed away: Aḥmad ibn ʿIṣām in Isfahān (1); Abū ʿUtbah al-Ḥijāzī (2); Aḥmad ibn Mahdī ibn Rustum (3); Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī (4); Sulaymān ibn Sayf al-Ḥarrānī (5); Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ (6); and Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Munādī (7).
I read this to Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī (8), who related: al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; Shuhdah bint Aḥmad informed us; Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān informed us; and it was likewise reported by Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ismāʿīl al-Hāshimī, Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Dihqān, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, and ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad, who all said:
“Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-ʿAṭāridī narrated to us; Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, who said: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:’”
(1) His biography has already been given on p. 41, no. 25.
(2) Listed in: al-Ibar, 2:49; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:162. The person is Ahmad ibn al-Faraj, Abu Utba al-Himsi, also called al-Hijazi.
(3) His notice appears in the author’s al-Ibar, 2:49, and in Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:162.
(4) Recorded in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 2:581-582; the author’s al-Ibar, 2:50; and Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:163. He is Muhammad ibn Awf ibn Sufyan, Abu Jaʿfar al-Taʾi, the hadith memoriser.
(5) His biography will be found below on p. 147, no. 78.
(6) His biography is given in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 2:582 (at the end of the entry on Muhammad ibn Awf al-Taʾi), and also in the author’s al-Ibar, 2:50, and Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:163.
(7) Cited in the author’s al-Ibar, 2:50, and in Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:163. He is Muhammad ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Yazid, Abu Jaʿfar ibn al-Munadi, the traditionist.
(8) He was Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn ibn Salim—nicknamed al-Hajj—a devout Qurʾan-reciter; Shams al-Din, Abu Jaʿfar al-Sulami al-Abbasi al-Dimashqi. He inherited a vast fortune, which he spent on pilgrimage, charity, and pious endowments. Thereafter he adopted an ascetic life, living on only two dirhams a day, shunning people; he grew weak, became deaf, his eyesight deteriorated, and he stayed for a time in Kafr Susah. He died in 708 AH, as noted by al-Dhahabi in his Mashikha, MS fol. 143.