He heard (hadith) from Salm ibn Junadah, Musa ibn ʿAmir al-Dimashqi, Ibrahim ibn Saʿid al-Jawhari, al-Rabiʿ al-Muradi, Ahmad ibn al-Furat, and several others.
Narrators on his authority include Abu Shaykh, al-Tabarani, Abu Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and the scholars of his own city.
Abu Shaykh said, “He was a traditionist, the son of a traditionist, the author of many works. He died in Kerman in the year 309 AH.”
221 – al-Masargisi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn*
The imām, traditionist, scholar, and reliable authority: Abu al-ʿAbbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn ʿIsa al-Masargisi, grandson of al-Hasan ibn ʿIsa ibn Masargis al-Naysaburi.
He studied under his grandfather, Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Shayban ibn Farrukh, al-Rabiʿ ibn Thalabah, Wahb ibn Baqiyyah, ʿAmr ibn Zurarah, and their peers.
Those who transmitted from him include the ḥadith master Abu ʿAli al-Naysaburi, Abu Ishaq al-Muzakki, Abu Sahl al-Suʿluki, Abu Ahmad al-Hakim, and others.
He passed away in Safar, 313 AH, while in his nineties. He was counted among the leading notables and scholars of his city—may Allah have mercy on him.
Abu al-Faḍl Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Taj al-Umanaʾ informed us—reading with me; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muhammad informed us in his written transmission; Tamim ibn Abi Saʿid informed us; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Kanjarudi informed us in the year 449 AH; Muhammad