114 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Muslim ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī*
A leading imām, reliable authority, and Qur’an reciter; Abū Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī, of Kufa. He was the father of the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī, the author of the History.
Born: 141 AH.
He studied the Qur’an under Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt.
He transmitted ḥadith from Asbāṭ ibn Naṣr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit ibn Thawbān, Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Shabīb ibn Shaybah, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy, and others of their rank.
A great many narrated from him, and he held a regular teaching circle.
Ibn Qudāmah and a group, by formal license, informed us:
ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad told us; Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn told us; Ibn Ghaylān told us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī related to us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Danūqā narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī narrated to us; Isrāʾīl, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, from Ibn Masʿūd, reported:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ taught me to recite: ‘Indeed, I alone am the Provider, Possessor of power, the Strong.’” ⦗1⦘