the Sufi; Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Jarjarāʾī; ʿAbbād ibn ʿAlī, the pearl-stringer; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin al-Muhallabī—the traditionist of Jurjān; and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUqbah, Abū Jaʿfar al-Shiblī.
172 – Jaʿfarak* Abū Muḥammad Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā
The imām, ḥadith master, and widely-traveled scholar: Abū Muḥammad Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Naysābūrī, nicknamed al-Aʿraj, who later resided in Aleppo.
He was also known as “Jaʿfarak.”
He related hadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī, Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khushk, and several others.
Narrators from him include Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah and Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī—both renowned ḥadith masters—along with Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and others.
More than one authority declared him reliable, commending his memorization and expertise; Ibn al-Muqriʾ met him in Mosul.
He died in the early teens of the third century AH.
173 – Ibn Jamīl, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Aṣbahānī**
The shaykh, trustworthy, long-lived scholar: Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn