narrated from him: al-Dāraqutnī, Abū’l-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mutayyam, Ibrāhīm ibn Makhlad al-Baqraḥī, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said: “He was reliable and widely known for his piety. On one occasion he performed the prayer for rain on behalf of the people and said,
‘O Allah, when ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb sought rain through the grey hairs of al-ʿAbbās, You sent it down. He is my forefather, and I now seek rain through him.’
He then began to turn his cloak inside out, and the rain came while he was still on the minbar.” (1)
He died in 335 AH.
121 – al-Jurjīrī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ *
The traditionist Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ al-Aṣbahānī, known as al-Jurjīrī.
He heard ḥadīth from: Isḥāq ibn al-Fayḍ, Isḥāq Shādhān, Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim al-Thaqafī, Masʿūd ibn Yazīd al-Qaṭṭān, Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Qutaybah, and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbdillāh al-Jumaḥī.
Narrated from him: Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥāfiẓ, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Abū ʿAbdillāh ibn Mandah, ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad al-Burjī, and others.
Some of his higher-level isnāds appear in al-Thaqafiyyāt (2).
He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of 330 AH.