, al-Karabīsī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Azraqī, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Hamdānī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Shurayḥ al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Wazīr al-Miṣrī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Wahbī, and his cousin Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī; Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh; Isḥāq ibn Buhlūl; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Shāfiʿī, the theologian; al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj al-Naqqāl; Ḥāmid ibn Yaḥyā al-Balkhī; Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Mahrī; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿImrān ibn Miqlāṣ; ʿAlī ibn Maʿbad al-Raqqī; ʿAlī ibn Salama al-Labaqī; ʿAmr ibn Sawwād; Abū Ḥanīfa Qaḥzam ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Aswānī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAdanī; Masʿūd ibn Sahl al-Miṣrī; Hārūn ibn Saʿīd al-Aylī; Aḥmad ibn Sinān al-Qaṭṭān; Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Sarraḥ; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā; al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Murādī; al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Jīzī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam; Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī; and many others besides them.
Al-Dāraquṭnī even devoted a separate work, in two fascicles, entitled “Those Who Transmitted from al-Shāfiʿī.” Leading scholars, both early and recent (1), have likewise authored extensive treatises on this Imām’s virtues, yet some people
Al-Dhahabi questions the authenticity of the book’s attribution to him; in al-Mizan, 2/639, he writes: “The isnad of the book al-Hayda to him is not sound; it appears to have been falsely ascribed to him.”
He was one of those who studied fiqh under al-Shafi‘i and was known for his close company with him; he died shortly before 240/855–856.
(1) Al-Subki states in Tabaqat al-Shafi‘iyya, 1/343-345: “The first person of whom I am aware to write on the merits of al-Shafi‘i was Imam Dawud ibn ‘Ali al-Isfahani, the leader of the Zahiri school; he produced several works on the subject. After him came Zakariyya ibn Yahya al-Saji and ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim. Then Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Ibrahim al-Abri composed an extensive book, arranged in seventy-four chapters. Thereafter al-Hakim Abu ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Bayyi‘, the hadith master, authored a comprehensive treatise. In the same period Abu ‘Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn ibn Hamkan al-Isfahani prepared an abridgement in this genre. Next, Abu ‘Abd Allah ibn Shakir al-Qattan produced his well-known epitome, and finally the ascetic imam Isma‘il ibn Muhammad al-Sarkhasi al-Qarab compiled a substantial collection, arranged in one hundred and sixteen chapters.”