whereupon his desire got the better of him: he yielded, bought those books, began to narrate from them, and his reputation was torn apart. (1)
Ibn Abī al-Fawāris said: “He related both the History and the Mubtadaʾ from a volume in which he had never actually heard them; it seems he thought such a procedure was permissible. He died in Dhū’l-Ḥijjah of the year 369 AH. (2)
178 – Ibn al-Sunnī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Hāshimī*
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, reliable authority, and indefatigable traveller: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Asbāṭ, the Hāshimī al-Jaʿfarī, their client, from Dīnawar—best known as Ibn al-Sunnī.
He was born around 280 AH.
He journeyed far and wide, and heard hadith from Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī—his senior teacher—Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī, from whom he transmitted extensively, Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq al-Manjiniqī, ʿUmar ibn Abī Ghaylān al-Baghdādī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bāghandī, Zakariyyā al-Sājī, Abū’l-Qāsim al-Baghawī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zaydān al-Bajalī, Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, Jumāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Zamlakānī, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muḥammad ibn Khuraym, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī, and many others.