82 – Adam ibn Abi Iyas, Abu al-Hasan al-Khurasani * (Kh, T, S, Q)
The imam, hadith master, and exemplar, Shaykh of greater Syria—Abu al-Hasan al-Khurasani, originally from Marw, then Baghdad, and finally Ascalon, the hadith authority of Ascalon. (1)
His father’s name was Nāhiya ibn Shuʿayb; some, however, said it was ʿAbd al-Rahman.
He was born in the year 132 AH.
He sought and heard hadith in Iraq, Egypt, the Two Sanctuaries, and greater Syria.
Among those from whom he narrated were: Ibn Abi Dhiʾb, Mubarak ibn Fadala, Shuʿbah ibn al-Hajjaj, al-Masʿudi, al-Layth, Hariz ibn ʿUthman, Warqaʾ, Hammad ibn Salamah, Shayban the Grammarian, Israʾil ibn Yunus, Hafs ibn Maysarah, and many others.
Among those who narrated from him are: al-Bukhari in his Sahih, Ahmad ibn al-Azhar, Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-ʿAkkawi, Ismaʿil Sammuyah, Hashim ibn Marthad al-Tabarani, Ishaq ibn Suwayd al-Ramli, Abu Zurʿah al-Dimashqi, Abu Hatim al-Razi, Thabit ibn Nuʿaym al-Hawji, Ibrahim ibn Dayzil Sayfannah, and many others besides them.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 7, p. 490; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 2, p. 39; idem, al-Tarikh al-Saghir, vol. 2, p. 342; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil, vol. 2, p. 268; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 7, p. 27; al-Samʿani, al-Ansab, vol. 8, pp. 449–450; Ibn al-Fuwati, al-Muʿjam al-Mushtamil, p. 72; Ibn al-Jawzi, Sifat al-Safwa, vol. 4, pp. 308–309; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 74; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 379; idem, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 1, p. 48, no. 2; idem, al-Kashif, vol. 1, p. 101; idem, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 1, p. 409; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 1, p. 196; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, pp. 168–169; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 14; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 2, p. 47.
(1) This refers to the city of ʿAsqalan in al-Sham, a Palestinian coastal town situated between Gaza and Bayt Jibrin. There is another locality called ʿAsqalan in Balkh, to which several hadith scholars are also attributed. See al-Ansab, vol. 8, p. 449, and Muʿjam al-Buldan, vol. 4, p. 122.