Among those who passed away in the same year were: ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī (1); Abū Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī (2); Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Raqqī (3); Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Raqqī, known as Sanja (4); Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Qalansī of Ramla; Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Narsī (5); and Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Fīl al-Anṭākī.
198 – al-Ḥarbī, Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Maymūn
A leading imām, ḥāfiẓ, and man of proven reliability: Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Maymūn, the Baghdadi al-Ḥarbī.
He was born a little after 190 AH.
He studied under Hawdhah ibn Khalīfah, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Marwadhī, Mūsā ibn Dāwūd, ʿAffān ibn Muslim, Abū Nuʿaym, Abū Ḥudhayfah Mūsā ibn Masʿūd, and al-Qaʿnabi.
We have heard the Muwaṭṭaʾ through his narration.
Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf, Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, and many others.