Standing in the register Known
Also written as: أبي جعفر أحمد بن محمد بن حميد الملقب بالفيل، أبي حميد الفيل
The register links these spellings as one person.
d. 289 AH / 901–902 CE No. 6 in the chain from the Prophet ﷺ العراق
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Humayd of Baghdad, nicknamed al-Fil, was a well-known skilled reader. He read with Amr ibn al-Sabbah (transmitter of Hafs) around 218-220 AH and with Yahya ibn Hashim al-Simsar, and also narrated hadith.
Each route above this person as the published certificates write it, with its own number; the smallest number is the highest chain.
Read to these teachers
