Their other brother—first deputy governor of Egypt and later of Aleppo—was Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣāliḥ. He died around the year 190 AH, leaving descendants in Aleppo.
Ismāʿīl was a man of letters, a poet, philosophically inclined, a skilled ʿūd-player, and known for his generosity and courage.
Their third brother was ʿAbd Allāh, commander of the frontier fortresses.
- ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb ibn Muslim al-Fihri, their client (ʿA)
The Imām, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū Muḥammad al-Fihri—the Egyptian ḥāfiẓ.
He was born in 125 AH. Ibn Yūnus recorded this and said: “It is also claimed that his clientage was to the Anṣār.”
He began seeking knowledge at the age of seventeen.
He transmitted ḥadith from Ibn Jurayj; Yūnus ibn Yazīd; Ḥanẓala ibn Abī Sufyān; Ḥuyayy ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Maʿāfirī; Ḥaywa ibn Shuraiḥ; ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith; Usāma ibn Zayd al-Laythī; ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar; Mūsā ibn ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir al-Aslamī; Abū Ṣakhr Ḥumayd ibn Ziyād; Mūsā ibn Ayyūb al-Ghāfiqī; Aflah ibn Ḥumayd; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ziyād ibn—