Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated from al-Aʿmash, who said:

“We exerted ourselves to seat Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī beside a pillar, and we repeatedly pressed him, but he refused. He would come to the mosque wearing a qabāʾ (long coat) and a rayṭa (shawl) dyed with safflower.⦗1⦘”

He added, “He used to sit with the police guards.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Ibrāhīm was intelligent, possessed a prodigious memory, and was firmly committed to the Sunnah.”

Mughīrah said, “Whenever someone whom Ibrāhīm did not wish to meet came looking for him, the servant-girl would step out and say, ‘Look for him in the mosque.’⦗2⦘”

Qays narrated from al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm, who said:

“A man came and said, ‘I have spoken of someone in a certain way, and the report has reached him from me. How do I apologise to him?’

He replied, ‘Say: By Allah, Allah knows that I have not said any such thing.’”

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī said, “Ibrāhīm received the Qurʾān recitation by direct presentation from ʿAlqamah and al-Aswad. Al-Aʿmash and Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif read to him in turn.”

Wakīʿ narrated from Shuʿbah, from Mughīrah, from Ibrāhīm, who said:

“Reciting aloud ‘In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful’ is an innovation.⦗3⦘”

214 – Abū Naḍrah al-ʿAbdī, al-Mundhir ibn Mālik ibn Quṭʿah* (M, 4)

The imam, ḥadith scholar, and reliable authority, Abū Naḍrah al-ʿAbdī,