extends to fifteen volumes. He was gifted with a capacious style, abundant learning, and keen intelligence.
Ibn al-Dubaythī (1) said, “He is the author of the work on prosody and of the witty anecdotes famed for their sharp insight. He studied belles-lettres with Ibn al-Jawālīqī and composed encomia for caliphs and viziers. We heard hadith from him toward the end of his life, yet by then his faculties had declined; forgetfulness and distraction had overtaken him.”
He passed away in Ramaḍān, 576 AH.
His brother, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (2), had died earlier, in 563 AH; he was the elder of the two and transmitted hadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ṭayyūrī.
31 – Al-Dūshābī, Abū Hāshim ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad al-Hāshimī *
The venerable, long-lived shaykh Abū Hāshim ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad al-Hāshimī, known as al-Dūshābī, an ʿAbbāsid from Baghdad, surnamed al-Harrās.
He narrated from al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī (3) said, “I wrote down two hadith from him.”