Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “A party of my community will continue to be manifest upon the religion, honored, until the Day of Resurrection.” (1)

329 – Ibn Fāris ʿAbdullāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣbahānī
The shaykh, the imām, the righteous muhaddith, and the leading transmitter of Isfahān: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh, son of the hadith scholar Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris al-Iṣbahānī.

He heard from Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim al-Thaqafī, Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ḍabbī, Hārūn ibn Sulaymān, Aḥmad ibn ʿIṣām, Ismāʿīl Sammūyah, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥātim, Ḥudhayfah ibn Ghiyāth, and many other senior authorities, and he alone transmitted their reports—their number came close to one hundred.

He was among the trustworthy worshippers.

Those who narrated from him include: Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandah, Abū Dharr ibn al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Dhakwānī, Abū Bakr ibn Fūrak, Ibn Mardūyah, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jammāl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muṣʿab, Ghulām Muḥsin Aḥmad ibn Yazdād, and Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ; through him the chain of transmission reached its highest point.

He was born in the year 248 AH.