ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maslama—whenever he passed by Ibn Shihāb he would call out, “Shihāb,” and he did so time and again. Mālik became irritated with him. ʿAbd al-Malik would absent himself for a while, then copy onto his tablets whatever he had heard from Mālik, insisting, “I wrote this myself,” and people were amazed at his heedlessness.

He once read to us, in Mālik’s presence, the chapter on Vows. While reciting he said, “I presented to him a portion and a broken youth.” Mālik burst out laughing and corrected him: “A broken cucumber shoot (1), may Allah grant you well-being!”

Ibn Yūnus transmitted this anecdote: “ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Saʿd told us; ʿAmr ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Sarḥ told us; Ibn Bukayr told us,” and he related the whole story.

He died in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 224 AH. His grandfather was Yazīd, the freedman of Juzaʾ ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān.

145 – Hishām ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Rāzī *
A Sunnī (2) jurist, one of the foremost imams of the Sunnah.

He narrated from: Ibn Abī Dhiʾb, Mālik ibn Anas, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār, and others of their generation.

Transmitters from him include: Baqiyya ibn al-Walīd—who actually regarded him as a teacher—Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-ʿAṭṭār, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Ḥamdān ibn al-Mughīrah, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazīd, and a number of others.