al-Mughīra ibn Thābit al-Anṣārī al-Harawī—better known as Ibn Abī Shuraiḥ.
He was born sometime after 300 AH.
Among those from whom he learned were: Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī in Baghdad—indeed, among what he preserved on his authority was the book al-Jaʿdiyyāt—Yahyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Balkhī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Nayrūz al-Anmāṭī, Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Warrāq, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṭabarī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Hītī, Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad—the brother of Zubayr the ḥāfiẓ—ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Khushaysh, Jaʿfar ibn ʿĪsā al-Ḥulwānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Balkhī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan al-Asadī al-Hamadhānī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Muhtadī billāh, and many others besides them.
His father took him on scholarly journeys. He was truthful, possessed a sound mode of audition, and was a man of ḥadīth, learning, and stature.
Those who narrated from him include: the jurist Nāṣir al-ʿUmarī, Sufyān ibn Muḥammad al-Shuraiḥī, Abū ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad al-Malīḥī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ghumayrī, Abū Saʿīd Yaʿlā ibn Hibat Allāh al-Fuḍaylī, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Fuḍayl ibn Yaḥyā al-Fuḍaylī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Masʿūd ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Fārisī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Kalārī, Bībā bint ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Harthamiyya, and others.
A group of our teachers reported to us, saying: Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd told us, ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā told us, Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī told us: I heard Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī, the muʾadhdhin, say, “I was travelling with Shaykh Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Shuraiḥ along the Ghur road when a man came to him in one of those mountains and said, ‘My wife has given birth at six months…’”