225 – Ibn Ghabrah, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Hāshimī
The shaykh, the eminent Imām and musnid, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlawī ibn Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn Ghabrah al-Hāshimī, al-Hārithī, al-Kūfī, al-Muʿaddal—earlier known as Ibn al-Muʿallim—was a descendant of the Messenger’s cousin Rabiʿah ibn al-Ḥārith.
He was born in 468 AH.
In 475 AH he began hearing ḥadīth, taking them from Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿIllān al-Muʿaddal, Abū Ghālib ibn al-Manthūr al-Juhanī, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdān, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Dihqān, and others.
He possessed several single-tract collections (ajzāʾ) with remarkably elevated chains, and scholars travelled to him for these.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “A number of people who had heard from him in Kufa narrated to us on his authority.” Those who heard from him include Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Jīlī and Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Naqqūr. In earlier days he also related ḥadīth in Baghdad.
I say: The last person to receive an ijāzah from him was Karīmah al-Qurashiyyah.
Masʿūd ibn al-Nādir reported: “Ibn Ghabrah died at the very end of Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 555 AH.”
Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ said: “He was reliable in his transmission. I read to him, using my own copy, the ajzāʾ that had become available from his collection, and he died in Muḥarram, 556 AH.”
I add: Every ḥadīth of his that has come down to us includes an ijāzah somewhere in the chain of transmission.