and he also narrated from Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab, though his reports from him contain anomalies. Abū ʿAṣīdah is the sole transmitter of the celebrated admonition that al-Awzāʿī addressed to al-Manṣūr.
I say: Aḥmad al-Ḥawṭī corroborated him and remarked, “In spite of all this, Abū ʿAṣīdah was among the truthful.”
I further say: He was a foremost authority in Arabic philology.
He died in 278 AH, having lived into his nineties, may Allah have mercy upon him.
In that same year there also died: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Haytham al-Baladī (1), ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Dayr ʿĀqūlī (2), Muḥammad ibn Shaddād al-Mismaʿī (3), Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Washshāʾ (4), Hāshim ibn Marthad al-Ṭabarānī (5), Mūsā ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Mundhir al-Ḥimṣī, and Abū Aḥmad al-Muwaffaq bi-Allah, the crown prince (6).
111 – Isḥāq ibn Sayyār ibn Muḥammad, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Naṣībī *
The imām, ḥadith master, and unimpeachable authority—Abū Yaʿqūb al-Naṣībī.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd Allah ibn Dāwūd al-Khuraybī, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, and their contemporaries. He gathered ḥadith and authored works.
Ibn ʿAsākir (7) said: “Isḥāq ibn Sayyār ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Naṣībī…”