ibn Makhlad al-Baghdādī al-Jawharī, the market inspector, better known as Ibn Muharram. He was counted among the eminent disciples of Ibn Jarīr. He heard ḥadīth from al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Haytham al-Baladī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ṭabbāʿ, al-Kudaymī, and their peers. Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Razqawayh, Ibn Dāwūd al-Razzāz, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥadīth master, and others. Al-Dāraqutnī said, “There is no harm in him,” whereas Ibn Abī al-Fawāris commented, “He was not all that outstanding.” I say: he died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 357 AH, at the age of ninety-three.

42 – al-Shaʿʿār, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Bundār ibn Isḥāq*

The Imām, accomplished jurist, distinguished scholar, ḥadīth specialist, and chief musnid of Isfahān, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Bundār ibn Isḥāq al-Isfahānī, known as al-Shaʿʿār the Ẓāhirī. He heard ḥadīth from Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿdān, ʿUbayd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ghazzāl, Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā, ʿUmayr ibn Mirdās, Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, and others. Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbdkuwayh, and Abū Bakr