- Hishām ibn al-Ghāz ibn Rabīʿah al-Jurashī, the Damascene * (4)
An eminent imām, Qur’an reciter, and ḥadīth scholar, known as Abū al-ʿAbbās; some called him Abū Rabīʿah, and others Abū ʿAbdullāh.
He narrated from Anas ibn Mālik—if that chain is authentic—as well as from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, Makḥūl, ʿUbādah ibn Nusay, al-Zuhrī, Nāfiʿ, and a group of others. He recited the Qur’an to Yaḥyā al-Dhimmārī.
Those who transmitted from him include his son ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Ibn al-Mubārak, Wakīʿ, al-Walīd, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Shabābah, Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān al-Rāzī, Abū al-Mughīrah al-Khawlānī, Yaḥyā ibn Yamān, and several others.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “His ḥadīth are acceptable.” ʿAbbās reported from Yaḥyā (ibn Maʿīn), “There is nothing wrong with him.” Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmmār remarked, “A trustworthy Syrian.” Ibn Khirāsh said, “He was among the finest of people.” Al-Fasawī related, “I asked Duḥaym about him, and he replied, ‘How excellent is his steadfastness in ḥadīth!’”
Abū Mus-hir said, “Hishām ibn al-Ghāz was in charge of the public treasury (1) for Abū Jaʿfar.”
It is said that he died in 156 AH, while Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn held that his death occurred in 153 AH.