and Sumnun the Lover (1), and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Tarkhān al-Balḵī, and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān al-Marwazī (2), and Yūsuf ibn ʿĀṣim al-Rāzī, and the prince Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir (3).
284 – Abū ʿAmr al-Khaffāf, Aḥmad ibn Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, eminent authority, exemplar, and Shaykh al-Islām: Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī, famously known as al-Khaffāf.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim said: “He stood alone in his stature, leadership, asceticism, worship, and generosity of spirit.”
He heard ḥadith from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿAmr ibn Zurārah, Abū ʿAmmār al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥurayth, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rizmah, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk, Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Shaqīq, and their peers in Nīshāpūr;
from Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Abū Hammām al-Sakūnī, and others of their tier in Baghdad;
from Abū Kurayb, ʿAbbād ibn Yaʿqūb, Hannād ibn al-Sarrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī, and their contemporaries in Kūfah;
and from Yaʿqūb ibn Ḥumayd ibn Kāsib, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, ʿAbd Allāh