and old age and Islam forbid me to follow my whims; in both old age and Islam a man finds a curb. (1)
213 – Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, Abū ʿImrān ibn Yazīd ibn Qays * (ʿ)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and jurist of Iraq: Abū ʿImrān Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd ibn Qays ibn al-Aswad ibn ʿAmr ibn Rabīʿah ibn Dhuhl ibn Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn al-Nakhaʿ (2) — a Yemeni by origin who later settled in Kūfah, and one of the acknowledged authorities.
He was the son of Mulaykah, the sister of al-Aswad ibn Yazīd.
He narrated ḥadith from: his maternal uncle, Masrūq, ʿAlqamah ibn Qays, ʿUbaydah al-Salmānī, Abū Zurʿah al-Bajalī, Khaythamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ al-Muḥāribī, Sālim ibn Minjāb, Suwayd ibn Ghafalah, the judge Shurayḥ, Shurayḥ ibn Arṭāʾah, Abū Maʿmar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sakhbarah, ʿUbayd ibn Nuḍaylah, ʿUmārah ibn ʿUmayr, Abū ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, his uncle ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, Hammām ibn al-Ḥārith, and many other senior Successors.
We have found no proof that he heard directly from the later Companions who were with him in Kūfah.
(1) The final line appears in Ibn al-Shajari’s Hamasah, p. 139. For biographical details, see: Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 6/270; Khalifah, al-Tabaqat, p. 1140; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh, 1/333; Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿarif, p. 463; al-Fasawi, al-Maʿrifah wa-l-tarikh, 2/100, 604; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, vol. 1, part 1, p. 144; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-awliyaʾ, 4/219; al-Shirazi, Tabaqat al-fuqahaʾ, p. 82; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-asmaʾ wa-l-lughat, vol. 1, part 1, p. 104; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-aʿyan, 1/25; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, p. 68; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 1/69; idem, Tarikh al-Islam, 3/335; idem, al-ʿIbar, 1/113; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-tahdhib, 1/45a; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wa-l-nihayah, 9/140; Ibn al-Jazari, Ghayat al-nihayah, p. 125; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 1/177; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-huffaz, p. 29; al-Khazraji, Khulasat tadhhib al-tahdhib, p. 23; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-dhahab, 1/111.
(2) In the base manuscript the name “Rabiʿah ibn Dhuhl” is mistakenly repeated, and the material within brackets is missing. Ibn Hazm traces his lineage in al-Jamharah, p. 415, as follows: “Ibrahim ibn Yazid ibn al-Aswad ibn Rabiʿ ibn Dhuhl ibn Harithah ibn Saʿd ibn Malik ibn al-Nakhʿ.” Ibn Saʿd, Khalifah and Ibn Khallikan, however, omit the element “Dhuhl.”