He, too, is said to have been known as “the Imam’s Nephew,” which would make three men in all who bore that title. The two contemporaries are easily confused with one another, whereas the elder—the shaykh of Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī—stands apart.

200 – Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Sinān ibn Asad al-Wāsitī, the Cotton-Dealer
The ḥāfiẓ, Abū Muḥammad.

He studied under his father, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Jaʿfar al-Qaṭṭān; Tamīm ibn al-Muntaṣir; Abū Kurayb; Hannād ibn al-Sarī; Sulaymān ibn ʿUbayd Allah; Muḥammad ibn Bashshār (Bundār); and their contemporaries.

Transmitters from him include Ibn ʿAdī; the judge Yūsuf al-Mayānajī; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān; Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ; and many others.

He died in 307 AH.

Abū al-Faḍl ibn Tāj al-Umanaʾ transmitted to us, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad; Abū al-Qāsim al-Mustamli transmitted to us; Abū Saʿd al-Ṭayyib transmitted to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Hīrī transmitted to us; Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad, the ḥāfiẓ of Wāsiṭ, transmitted to us; Tamīm ibn al-Muntaṣir transmitted to us; he said: Isḥāq narrated to us, from Sufyān—and also Shurayk—from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Allah does not take away knowledge by snatching it from the people; rather, He takes it away by taking the scholars…”—the ḥadīth (1).