Ibn Qāniʿ said that he died in the year 225 AH.
192 – Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mahdī *
The eminent prince Abū Isḥāq, nicknamed al-Mubārak; Ibrāhīm, son of the Commander of the Believers Muḥammad ibn Abī Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-ʿAbbāsī, known as al-Aswad.
He was also called “al-Tinnīn” (the Dragon) because of his complexion and his large build.
Eloquent, articulate, learned, cultured, a poet, and a leading figure in the art of music.
He was further known as Ibn Shaklah (1), Shaklah being his mother.
He transmitted ḥadith from al-Mubārak ibn Faḍālah and Ḥammād al-Abaḥḥ.
Those who reported from him include his son Hibat Allāh, Ḥumayd ibn Farwah, Aḥmad ibn al-Haytham, and others.
ʿAlī ibn al-Mughīrah al-Athram said: Ibrāhīm narrated to us that he governed Damascus for several years during which no highway robbery occurred, and I was later informed that the scourge of banditry came from Duʿāmah
(*) Principal sources: Khalifa ibn Khayyat, Tarikh, pp. 457, 470, 473; al-Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 8, pp. 555, 557, 569-571, 603-607, 661; al-Masudi, Muruj al-dhahab, vol. 7, p. 69; Abu l-Faraj al-Isfahani, al-Aghani, vol. 10, pp. 95, 150; Ibn al-Nadim, al-Fihrist, p. 129; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 6, p. 142; Ibn Makula, al-Ikmal, vol. 1, p. 518; al-Samani, al-Ansab, vol. 3, p. 97; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 6, pp. 341, 351, 353-354, 508; Ibn al-Anbari, al-Lubab, vol. 1, p. 226; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-ayan, vol. 1, p. 39; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, vol. 1, p. 389; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bil-wafayat, vol. 6, pp. 110, 113; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, vol. 10, pp. 247-251 and elsewhere; Ibn Hajar, Lisan al-mizan, vol. 1, p. 98; Ibn Taghri Bardi, al-Nujum al-zahira, vol. 2, pp. 240-241; Ashar awlad al-khulafa, pp. 17-49; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-dhahab, vol. 2, p. 53; Ibn Nasir al-Din, Tadhhib Tarikh Ibn Asakir, vol. 2, pp. 226-288.
(1) Ibn Khallikan records two possible vocalizations of the name: with either a fatha or a kasra on the sh, a silent k, and an h following the l. See Wafayat al-ayan, 1:39.