He transmitted from Saʿīd ibn Masrūq al-Thawrī, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Yūnus ibn Yazīd al-Aylī, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Azraq ibn ʿAlī, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdah al-Ḍabbī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, Isḥāq ibn Shāhīn, and many others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “There is no harm in him.”
Al-Dāraquṭnī graded him “reliable.”
Al-Nasāʾī stated, “He is not strong.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal regarded some of his reports as objectionable (1).
He died in 186 AH.
Al-ʿUqaylī said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad told us: I recounted to my father a ḥadith from Ḥassān ibn Ibrāhīm, which he had transmitted from ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥasan, from his mother Fāṭimah bint al-Ḥusayn, from Fāṭimah the daughter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ:
Whenever the Prophet ﷺ entered the mosque he would say, “Peace be upon you, O Prophet, and the mercy of Allah. O Allah, forgive me my sins and open for me the gates of Your mercy.”
My father said, “This is not from the narrations of ʿĀṣim; it is from the narrations of Layth ibn Abī Sulaym (2).”
I then mentioned to my father about—