in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of 287 AH, at the age of one hundred—may Allah have mercy on him.
In that same year, the following also passed away: Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn Nubayṭ (1); Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim (2); Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ (3), the ḥadith scholar of al-Andalus; and Abū al-Sarī Mūsā ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jalājalī (4).
226 – Isḥāq ibn Abī ʿImrān, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Isfarāyīnī*
The imām, jurist, ḥāfiẓ, and shaykh of Khurasān: Abū Yaʿqūb al-Isfarāyīnī.
Al-Muʾammal ibn Muḥammad (5) transmitted to us in writing, saying: Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī transmitted to us; Abū Manṣūr al-Shaybānī transmitted to us; Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb transmitted to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad transmitted to us; Muḥammad ibn Nuʿaym al-Ḍabbī told me; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Isfarāyīnī, the jurist, told us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdak al-Isfarāyīnī told us; Isḥāq ibn Abī ʿImrān told us; Abū Muḥammad al-Marwazī, the copyist of Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān, told us; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā told us; ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī told us; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal told us; Qutaybah told us; al-Layth narrated from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Abū al-Ṭufayl, from Muʿādh—that the Prophet ﷺ set out for the expedition of Tabūk. He would delay the ẓuhr prayer until the time of ʿaṣr began, and then combine the two (6).