Ṭaḥā, one of the districts of Egypt.
His birth: in the year 239 AH.
He received hadith from: ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Rifāʿah, Hārūn ibn Saʿīd al-Aylī, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, ʿĪsā ibn Mathrūd, Ibrāhīm ibn Munqidh, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Murādī, his maternal uncle Abū Ibrāhīm al-Muzanī (1), Bakkār ibn Qutaybah, Miqdām ibn Dāwūd al-Ruʿaynī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Barqī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Firyābī, Yazīd ibn Sinān al-Baṣrī, and others of their rank.
He distinguished himself in the sciences of hadith and jurisprudence, studied law under the judge Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Ḥanafī, and both collected and authored works.
Among those who narrated from him are: Yūsuf ibn al-Qāsim al-Mayyānjī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Muḥammad ibn Bakr ibn Maṭrūḥ, Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Khashshāb (2), Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith al-Zajjāj, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Jawharī, judge of Upper Egypt, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ikhmīmī (3), Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Tanūkhī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ḥāfiẓ, and many others from Damascus, Egypt, and the itinerant hadith scholars.