in 264 AH.
Ibn ʿUlayyah had another son—a Jahmī, a devil—named Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl. He maintained that the Qur’an is created and would argue the point. (1)
Another son, Ḥammād ibn Ismāʿīl, lived long enough to transmit from his father and is listed among the teachers of Muslim. (2)
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd al-Kātib said: “Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Miqsam, a client of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Quṭbah al-Asadī—of Asad Khuzaymah—was originally from Kūfah. His grandfather Miqsam had been taken captive in al-Qīqāniyyah, an area between Khurasan and Zabulistan. (3) Ibrāhīm ibn Miqsam was a merchant from Kūfah who used to travel to Basra for trade. He stayed there, married ʿUlayyah bint Ḥassān—a freedwoman of Banū Shaybān—an intelligent, distinguished woman who owned a house in the ʿAwqah quarter of Basra that was known after her. Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī and other leading figures and jurists of Basra would visit her; she would appear before them, converse with them, and ask them questions. Her son Ismāʿīl remained in Basra. (4)
Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ (5) said: “Abū Bishr died in Baghdad in 194 AH.”
ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd narrated from Shuʿbah, who said, “Ibn ʿUlayyah is the darling of the jurists.”