, son of ʿĪsā ibn Māsarjis al-Naysābūrī, a master of eloquence and refined speech. He studied hadith under al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Shaʿrānī, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl, and several others. He built a lodge for the traditionists and fixed for them regular stipends. Abū ʿAlī the ḥāfiẓ used to read to him The History of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.
I say: among those who transmitted from him were al-Sulamī, al-Ḥākim, and Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdān. He died on the night of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr in 350 AH at the age of eighty-nine.
11 – Ibn Jāmiʿ, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sukkari
The shaykh, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jāmiʿ al-Sukkari, an Egyptian scholar of hadith. He received traditions from Maqdām ibn Dāwūd al-Ruʿaynī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, and their contemporaries.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Mandah, Ibn al-Naḥḥās, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Ishbīlī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ghālib al-Tammār, Ḥusayn ibn Maymūn al-Ṣaffār, and others. He passed away in 351 AH.