through the line of transmission of Abū al-Aḥwaṣ; it is a fair (ḥasan) report.
75 – Shihāb ibn Khirāsh ibn Hawshab al-Shaybānī * (D)
He was Shihāb, son of Yazīd ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd ibn Ruwaym ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿd ibn Murrah ibn Dhuhl ibn Shaybān ibn Thaʿlabah.
An eminent imam, exemplar, and scholar, he bore the kunya Abū al-Ṣalt al-Shaybānī, later called al-Ḥawshabī and al-Wāsiṭī. He was the brother of ʿAbd Allāh and the nephew of al-ʿAwwām ibn Hawshab.
Originally from Kūfah, he later settled in Ramla.
He narrated from: ʿAmr ibn Murrah; Abān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr; ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jazarī; Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir; Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Qurashī; Qatādah; ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah; his uncle al-ʿAwwām; Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān; Shuʿayb ibn Ruzayq al-Ṭāʾifī; and al-Qāsim ibn Ghazwān.
He also related from younger contemporaries such as Sufyān al-Thawrī, al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣabīḥ, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Ibn Mahdī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ; Ibn Abī Fudayk; al-Haytham ibn Khārijah; Ādam ibn Abī Iyās; ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd ibn Kathīr al-Ḥimṣī; Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr; al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā; Qutaybah; and ʿAlī ibn