Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbduwayh ibn Sadūs ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the son of the jurist ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah ibn Masʿūd al-Hudhalī, known as al-Masʿūdī, al-ʿAbduwiyy, the Nīshāpūrī, nicknamed al-Aʿraj, and the son of the ḥadith scholar Abū al-Ḥasan.
His father Abū al-Ḥasan (1) died in Ramadan 385 AH, being in his early nineties. Those who narrated from the father include Ibn Khuzaymah and al-Sarrāj; others who related from him were his son, al-Ḥākim, Abū Saʿīd al-Kanjarwadhī, and several others.
His son Abū Ḥāzim was born sometime after 340 AH.
He heard ḥadiths from Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd; Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbda al-Salīṭī; Abū ʿAmr ibn Maṭar; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khamīruwayh al-Harawī; Abū Aḥmad al-Ghaṭrīfī; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān; Abū Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb; Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim; and others of their rank.
He set out late on the study-journey to Baghdad, and once there caught up with ʿĪsā ibn al-Wazīr and Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis.
He recorded transmissions with both high and low isnāds, compiled and classified collections, and achieved distinction in the science of ḥadith.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥassin, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Wakīl, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Muʾadhdhin, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzakkī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Thaqafī al-Raʾīs, and others.
Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Samarqandī said: “I heard Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb say…”