- Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Asadī (Kh, S, Q)—the son of al-Mundhir ibn al-Mughīra ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid ibn Ḥizām ibn Khuwaylid ibn Asad—was an imām, a ḥāfiẓ, and a trustworthy authority. He bore the kunya Abū Isḥāq and was Qurashī, Asadī, Ḥizāmī, and a native of Madinah.
He received ḥadīth from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, Muḥammad ibn Fulayḥ, Abū Ḍamrah Anas ibn ʿIyāḍ, Ibn Abī Fudayk, and many others. His most senior teacher was Sufyān.
Al-Bukhārī and Ibn Mājah narrated from him. His reports were also recorded by al-Tirmidhī and al-Nasāʾī through an intermediary, as well as by Baqī ibn Makhlad, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Thaʿlab, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Basrī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī, Masʿadah ibn Saʿd al-ʿAṭṭār, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, and many others besides.
Ṣāliḥ Jazarah said, “Reliable.” (1)
Abū Ḥātim likewise narrated from him and commented, “Reliable.” (2)
ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dāramī said: “I saw Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn writing from Ibrāhīm…”