his grandfather, Rajāʾ ibn al-Sindī, …; after that he named a further group.
Bishr ibn Aḥmad al-Isfarāʾīnī said: “Abū Bakr passed away in 286 AH, and he was in his eighties—may Allah have mercy on him.”
241 – Ibrāhīm ibn Maʿqil ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Nasafī *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, jurist, and judge—Abū Isḥāq al-Nasafī, chief judge of the city of Nasaf, which is also called Nakhsab.
He heard ḥadith from Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, Jubbārah ibn al-Mugallis, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Abū Kurayb, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, and their contemporaries, and he undertook extensive travels.
Those who narrated from him include ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṭaghāmī (1), Khalaf ibn Muḥammad al-Khayyām, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf, Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā, and his son Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm.
Abū Yaʿlā al-Khalīlī said, “He is a trustworthy ḥāfiẓ.”
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 295 AH.
I (the author) say: he compiled al-Musnad al-Kabīr, a Tafsīr, and other works, and al-Bukhārī narrated from him in the Ṣaḥīḥ. He was a jurist of independent reasoning.
242 – al-Ghasīlī Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Anṣārī **
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and author, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ibn