and al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān, Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him were Abū Bakr al-Abharī the judge, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, Ibn Jumayʿ, Abū Muslim al-Kātib, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr al-Tamīmī, and many others besides.
Al-Khaṭīb (1) declared him reliable.
He was an eminent merchant, richly endowed with virtues, and possessed of lofty chains of transmission.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of 338 AH, at a little over ninety years of age.
260 – al-Ṭaḥḥān Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn Jābir *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and critic: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn Jābir al-Ṭaḥḥān, the ḥadith scholar of Ramla.
He was born around 250 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaṣṣār, Sulaymān ibn Sayf al-Ḥarrānī, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd ibn Mazīd al-Bayrūtī, Bakkār ibn Qutaybah, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī, and their peers.