He was born in 204 AH and studied under ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Dūlābī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, and several others. He ranked among the foremost authorities of hadith.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn ʿAdī, Ḥamzah al-Kinānī, al-Ṭabarānī, al-Ḥasan al-Asyūṭī, Ibn Ḥayywah al-Naysābūrī, Ibn Yūnus, al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq, Abū Isḥāq ibn Shaʿbān al-Mālikī, and many more. Ibn Yūnus said, “He was reliable and firmly grounded.” He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 300 AH.
72 – al-Bassāmī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Naṣr ibn Bissām, the poet.
One of the leading poets, outstanding in both praise and satire, he lived a little over seventy years and died in Ṣafar 302 AH. He left several literary works; Ibn Khallikān quotes a number of his shorter poems.
73 – al-Bushtī, Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr **
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, skilled critic, and itinerant tradition-scholar: Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr al-Bushtī, a native of Nīshāpūr from the district of Busht (1).