among those who transmitted from him were Ibn Mardawayh, Abū Nuʿaym, and others. He passed away in 383 AH.

As for Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Abī Aḥmad (1), he related hadith from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr and a number of other teachers. His son Abū ʿĀmir died in 402 AH; he reported from Abū Muḥammad al-Jābirī al-Mawṣilī. And Allah knows best.

3 – Ibn ʿUbayd, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan al-Asadī, the son of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Asadī, from Hamadhān.

He heard hadith from Ibrāhīm ibn Dayzil, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḍurays, and ʿAlī ibn al-Junayd.

Those who reported from him include Ibn Mandah, al-Ḥākim, Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shubānah, and several others.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad, the ḥāfiẓ, said: “He is weak. He claimed to have transmitted from Ibn Dayzil, and with that claim his credibility was lost. I wrote down hadith from him in the days when he was still sound, and at that time he never alleged transmission from Ibrāhīm. Later he asserted it and began narrating well-known reports; Ibrāhīm used to ask about them and found them odd. We allowed that perhaps his father had read those reports to him, but his cousin Abū Jaʿfar and al-Qāsim ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ rejected the claim. He kept silent until they died, and then asserted it again.”