Among those who narrated from him were his son Muḥammad, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, ʿAffān, Sulaymān al-Shādhakūnī, Muḥammad ibn al-Minhāl, ʿĀmir ibn Ibrāhīm, Ṣāliḥ ibn Mihrān, Muḥammad ibn al-Mughīrah, and others.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym said: “He was one of the devout ascetics; he gave up his estates because they brought him into contact with the authorities. He followed the school of al-Thawrī and kept company with Abū Ḥanīfah …” He then concluded, “He died in the year 183 AH.”
119 – Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaḥyā al-Aslamī * (Q)
He was the shaykh, scholar, and traditionist—one of the well-known luminaries: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaḥyā al-Aslamī, their client, a Medinan jurist.
He was born around the year 100 AH, or slightly earlier.
He transmitted hadith from Ṣāliḥ, the client of al-Tawʾamah; Ibn Shihāb; Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir; Mūsā ibn Wardān; Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd; and many others.
He compiled a Muwaṭṭaʾ that is many times larger than the Muwaṭṭaʾ of Imām Mālik.
Only a small number narrated from him, among them al-Shāfiʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Farrāʾ, and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah.
Al-Shāfiʿī—despite holding a favourable opinion of him—whenever he related