Bundar ibn Afrajah al-Taymī—their client—from Isfahan. He heard ḥadith from Ibrāhīm al-Harbī, Ibrāhīm ibn Fahd al-Sājī, ʿImrān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Iṣfahānī the ascetic, and a number of others. Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasnavayh, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbdukuwayh, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, and many more. He died in 353 AH.
19 – Ibn al-Ḥīrī, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd*
The ḥāfiẓ and meticulous scholar, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Abū Bakr Muḥammad, son of the great exemplar Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥīrī—of Nishapur, the martyr, and one of the foremost authorities in ḥadith.
He heard ḥadith from al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, al-Haytham ibn Khalaf, Ḥāmid ibn Shuʿayb, Abū ʿAmr al-Khaffāf, ʿAbd Allāh Shīrawayh, Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Rāzī, Ibn Khuzaymah, and a great many others.
He authored al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr, the Mustakhraj on Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, al-Abwāb, and other works.
When he set out for Baghdad, al-Ḥākim said: “He marched with a large force and ample funds, and in Baghdad a great multitude gathered around him.” He added: “He was martyred at Tarsus in 353 AH, at the age of sixty-five.”
Al-Ḥākim and others narrated from him.