In the year three (303 AH) the following scholars passed away: the memoriser who was under suspicion (1), Abū Bishr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Kindī al-Muṣʿabī al-Marwazī; the ḥāfiẓ of Baghdad, Abū Ṭālib Aḥmad ibn Naṣr ibn Ṭālib; the leading grammarian Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArafah al-ʿAtakī, known as Nifṭawayh; the traditionist Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Warrāq of Baghdad; the jurist Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Ḥimyarī al-Kūfī, a close associate of Abū Kurayb; Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Ismāʿīl al-Maḥāmilī; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿImārah al-Dimashqī; the traditionist Abū ʿImrān Mūsā ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Juwaynī; and ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sukkari of Baghdad.
313 – Al-Isfarāyinī, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim
The Imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the discerning critic, the unrivalled master—Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Isfarāyinī—was one of the great itinerant scholars.
He was also called al-Jurbadhī (2), after the village of Jurbdh.