Abu Tahir Isfahani

Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, was one of the leading scholars of hadith in the twelfth century CE. He was an esteemed Shafi'i hadith scholar from Isfahan who taught for many years at the 'Adiliyya madrassa in Alexandria, where he was frequently visited by pupils from all over the Muslim world, including Al-Andalus. He lived to be a hundred years old possessing the world's shortest chains and well known for his great memory and precision.