He was born sometime between 463 and 469 AH and died on 12 Shawwāl 559 AH(1).

5—Abū al-Faraj Masūd ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Fadl al-Thaqafī:

He was a long-lived and learned shaykh, and the leading hadith transmitter of his age.

He heard from his grandfather, Abū Īsā Abd al-Rahmān ibn Ziyād, al-Mutahhar ibn Abd al-Wāhid al-Buzzānī, and others.

Among those who narrated from him were Muhammad ibn Yūsuf al-Āmulī, Abd Allah ibn Abī al-Faraj al-Jubbāī, al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Jarbādhaqānī, and others.

Al-Dhahabī said, “His many auditions through elevated chains kept him fully occupied. He was a man of prestige and wealth, and he lived for one hundred years.”

He was born in 462 AH and died in 560 AH(2).

6—Abū Amr Abd al-Wahhāb, son of the hadith master Abū Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishāq ibn Mandah:

He was a hadith scholar, a trustworthy authority, and an eminent transmitter.

He heard extensively from his father, as well as from Abū Ishāq ibn Khurrashīd Qūlah, Abū Umar ibn Abd al-Wahhāb al-Sulamī, Jafar ibn Muhammad the jurist, and others, in Isfahān, Nishapur, Shiraz, Hamadhān, Mecca, and al-Rayy.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Mutaman al-Sājī; his son, the hadith master Yahyā ibn Abd al-Wahhāb; Ismāīl ibn Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Taymī; and others.

He used to travel for trade, and collections of his selected hadiths were transmitted in several fascicles. He was very patient