Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sābūr al-Aswārī, the Iṣfahānī, originally from the village of Suwārā (1), one of the districts of Isfahān.
A reliable, much-travelled transmitter, he heard ḥadith from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaṣṣār, Abū Yaḥyā ibn Abī Masarra, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Shaʿrānī, Abū Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn Ghālib al-Tamṭām, and their peers.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Shaykh, Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad, Abū Bakr ibn Mardūyah, Ibn al-Muqriʾ, ʿAlī ibn Maylah, and a number of others.
He passed away in Shaʿbān 342 AH.
In al-Thaqafiyyāt (2) his reports are transmitted with a notably high isnād.
271 – al-Adhraʿī, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Hāshim
The imām, ḥadith master, godly scholar, and exemplar, Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Hāshim al-Nahdī, known as al-Adhraʿī (3), the shaykh of Damascus.
He travelled in pursuit of knowledge and, in Egypt, heard ḥadith from Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb, Miqdām ibn Dāwūd, Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī, and al-Nasāʾī.
In Ḥimṣ he heard from Mūsā ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Mundhir, and in Damascus from Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī.