years.
Al-Hākim then remarked: “He was known as al-Qaṭṭān, and after his passing no Mālikī instructor remained in Nishapur.”
I also heard Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Karābīsī say: “The jurist Ibrāhīm ibn Maḥmūd died in Shaʿbān, in the year 299 AH.”
39 – The Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ibrāhīm
The leading authority among Qurʾān reciters, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shabīb al-Iṣfahānī.
He devoted himself to the reading of Warsh (1) and mastered it. He recited to ʿĀmir al-Ḥarasī (2), Sulaymān al-Rashdīnī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Dāwud ibn Abī Ṭaybah.
He also learned the variant letters from Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā.
In hadith he reported from Dāwud ibn Rushayd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar Mushkadānah, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, and others of their rank.
Those who read to him include Hibat Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Muṭarriz, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus, and Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʿfar.
Among those who transmitted hadith from him are Ibn Mujāhid, Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Abū Shaykh, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Iṣfahānī, and others.