Among the districts of al-Jibal were the people of Isfahan, including Isam ibn Yazid, the attendant of al-Thawri, known as Jabbar; Salih ibn Mihran, a companion of al-Numan ibn Abd al-Salam; Abu Masud Ahmad ibn al-Furat al-Razi; Abd al-Razzaq ibn Bakr al-Isfahani; Usayd ibn Asim; Ibrahim ibn Buwayh; Ahmad ibn Mahdi; Ahmad ibn Isam ⦗336⦘ ibn Abd al-Kabir ibn Abi Ghamrah al-Ansari; Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Salim al-Qasani; Ibrahim ibn Ahmad ibn Yaish al-Baghdadi, a resident of Hamadhan; Abd al-Hamid ibn Isam al-Jurjani, a resident of Hamadhan; Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Said ibn Aban ibn Salih al-Tabai al-Hamadhani; Muhammad ibn Imran ibn Habib ibn al-Qasim al-Qurashi; Harun ibn Musa al-Hamadhani; Ibrahim ibn Masud al-Qazwini, a resident of Hamadhan; Ahmad ibn Mihran ibn al-Mundhir; Ahmad ibn Abdullah al-Sharani; Abu Ahmad Mahmud ibn Khalid; al-Nadr ibn Abdullah al-Dinawari; Ali ibn Muhammad al-Tanafisi ⦗337⦘ al-Kufi, a resident of Qazwin; and Yahya ibn Abdak al-Qazwini.
490—Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim mentioned him, saying: Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Isa narrated to us: I heard my father say: “When the mihnah decree, asserting that the Quran was created, was read aloud in Qazwin, I heard an outcry from the people in the mosque: ‘No indeed—never!’ They all said: ‘The Quran is the speech of Allah, uncreated; whoever says that it is created is a disbeliever.’”