He died in 269 AH.
106 – al-Fasawī, Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān ibn Juwwān (T, S) ⦗1⦘
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, authoritative proof, seasoned traveler, and chief traditionist of the province of Fārs: Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān ibn Juwwān al-Fārisī, from the city of Fasā. He was also called Yaʿqūb ibn Abī Muʿāwiyah.
He was born around 190 AH, during the reign of Hārūn al-Rashīd.
He authored a large History ⦗2⦘ filled with valuable material, and his Mashyakha (catalogue of his teachers) exists in a single volume, which we have transmitted.
He travelled widely and met the senior scholars.
He learned from Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā, al-Anṣārī, Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAbd Allah ibn Rajāʾ, Abū Mus-hir al-Ghassānī, ʿAwn ibn ʿUmārah, Habbān ibn Hilāl, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Abū al-Jumahar Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān, Ḥajjāj ibn Minhal, Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bakkār al-Bayrūtī, Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ, and their peers.