He arrived in Nishapur in the early three-hundred-and-twenties (circa 323 AH), where he held dictation sessions, yet I have not found that al-Ḥākim mentioned him in his History.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Jurjānī, Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad ibn Sahlawayh, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Makhladī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī—the teacher of al-Bayhaqī.
Al-ʿAlawī was the last person to narrate from him, and thus his reports constitute the highest-ranked isnād that reached the ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī.
I have not been able to discover the year of his death.
Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Khaṭīb and several others wrote to me:
al-Qāsim ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Shāfiʿī informed them; Wajīh ibn Ṭāhir informed us; Abū Ḥāmid al-Azharī informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Makhladī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Marwazī dictated to us in Nishapur; ʿAlī ibn Ḥujar narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmmār al-Anṣārī narrated to us, from Ṣāliḥ, the freedman of al-Tawʾamah, from Abū Hurayrah—who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “If the world were worth anything in Allah’s sight, He would not bestow upon a disbeliever any share of it.” (1)
317 – al-Faḍl ibn al-Khaṣīb ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Naṣr al-Iṣbahānī*
The ḥadith scholar, trustworthy transmitter, and seasoned traveller, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Iṣbahānī, known as al-Zaʿfarānī.