and Fuḍayl ibn Sulaymān, ʿAththam ibn ʿAlī, and others of their standing; he narrated abundantly and with great accuracy.

Al-Bukhārī and Muslim both include reports from him in their two Ṣaḥīḥs.

Al-Nasāʾī—through an unnamed intermediary—likewise transmitted from him, as did Ismāʿīl the judge, Abū Ḥātim, Yūsuf the judge, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Tamīmī, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, and many others.

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and Abū Zurʿah both declared him trustworthy.

He died at the beginning of 234 AH, having nearly reached the age of eighty—may Allah have mercy on him.

Some of his upper-level chains reach me in “The Description of the Hypocrite” and in the Musnad of Abū Yaʿlā.

His son, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, was also a student of hadith.

240 – Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Shuʿayb al-Umawī * (Kh, D, T, S)

He is the hadith scholar, the Imām, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Shuʿayb Muslim al-Umawī, from Ḥarrān, a client of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

He heard hadith from Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Mūsā ibn Aʿyan, al-Ḥārith ibn ʿUmayr, and a number of others.

Among those who narrated from him were Abū Dāwūd, Aḥmad ibn Fīl, Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī al-Nawfalī, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Jabalah, and his grandson Abū Shuʿayb ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan.