He studied under al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq and other scholars of comparable standing in Egypt; under the judge Abū Bakr al-Abharī and a group of teachers in Baghdad; under Tamīm ibn Muḥammad in Qayrawān; under Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Shubbūyī in Marw; and under Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Mustamlī in Balkh.
He returned to his homeland with a lofty isnād, and among those who transmitted from him were Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Abū ʿUmar ibn Sumaīq, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Zuhrāwī, Ḥātim ibn Muḥammad, Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥazm, and others.
He was pious and upright, lived austerely, and earned his livelihood through trade (1).
He heard the Muwaṭṭaʾ from Tamīm (2): “ʿĪsā ibn Miskīn informed us, from Suḥnūn, from Ibn al-Qāsim.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 411 AH.
He also transmitted the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī.
204 – al-ʿAbduwiyy, Abū Ḥāzim ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm *
The imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the pride of the hadith scholars: Abū Ḥāzim ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn