as well as Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd and a number of the scholars of Isfahan.

He passed away in 310 AH, a little over seventy years of age.

Abū Shaykh cites many of his narrations throughout his works. He was thoroughly versed in this discipline, and every report of his that has reached us comes only with a lower chain.

184 – al-Khuzaʿī, Abū Muḥammad Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq*

The imam, Qurʾān reciter, and hadith scholar Abū Muḥammad Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn Nāfiʿ al-Khuzaʿī al-Makkī, Shaykh of the Sacred Mosque. He perfected his recitation under al-Bazzī and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Fulayḥ.

He narrated hadith from Ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī—transmitting his Musnad—as well as from Muḥammad ibn Zunbur and Abū al-Walīd al-Azraqī.

Exacting and reliable, it is reported that he completed one hundred and twenty full readings of the Qurʾān before Ibn Fulayḥ.

He authored several works on the qirāʾāt (variant readings).

Those who read the Qurʾān to him include Ibn Shanabūdh, al-Muṭṭawwiʿī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Zaynabī, and many others.

Among those who transmitted hadith from him were Ibn al-Muqriʾ, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Anṭākī, and others.

He died in Mecca on the eighth of Ramaḍān, 308 AH.