Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī (Arabic: أبو طاهر السلفي; born Isfahan in 472 AH/1079 CE, died Alexandria in 576/1180), was one of the leading scholars of hadith in the twelfth-century.
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.
[4] He lived to be a hundred years old possessing the worlds shortest chains and well-known for his great memory and precision.
[5] The revered hadith transmitter and jurist, Abu Tahir al-Silafi at a young age left his birth town of Isfahan and travelled to Baghdad to further his studies.
[1] His other known students include the hadith scholar Ibn al-Mufaddhal and the linguist and historian, Abu al-Hajjaj al-Balawi.