41 – al-Warrāq, Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUmar
The traditionist, leading imam, and authoritative scholar, Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUmar ibn Mihrān al-Baghdādī—better known as al-Warrāq.
He heard hadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, and others of their generation.
Those who narrated from him include his son Abū Bakr Muḥammad, al-Dāraquṭnī, ʿĪsā ibn al-Wazīr, Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis, and many others.
Al-Dāraquṭnī judged him trustworthy (1).
He died on the return journey from the ḥajj, while still on the road, in Muḥarram 323 AH, having passed the age of eighty.
Al-Abrqūhī informed us; al-Fath informed us; Hibat Allāh informed us; Ibn al-Naqqūr informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; al-Muḥāribī narrated to me, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
“The lifespan of my community ranges between sixty and seventy years, and only a few will surpass that” (2).
Al-Tirmidhī also transmitted it through Ibn ʿArafah.