Hamzah (1) also relates in his History: “He died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal of the year 293 AH (2).”
298 – Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sawwār, Abū Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī
The imam and authoritative ḥadīth scholar, Abū Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī. Al-Ḥākim lists him among the senior shaykhs, noting that he was one of the most prolific and accurate narrators.
He received ḥadīth from Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, Abū Marwān Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khālid, Yaʿqūb ibn Ḥumayd ibn Kāssib, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Abū Kurayb, and many others besides them.
Late in life he travelled to Syria, where he wrote down narrations from Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī and Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd ibn Muslim.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Khuzaymah, al-Muʾammal ibn al-Ḥasan, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, and numerous other shaykhs.
I add: among his transmitters were also Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Hāniʾ, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Ḥamdān—resident of Khwārazm—Abū ʿAmr Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd, Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Najīḥ al-Baghdādī, and others.