He died in 234 AH when he was nearly sixty years old.
As for Aḥmad ibn Ḥarb al-Taʾī,* he was one of his contemporaries, but he lived longer and will be mentioned later together with his brother ʿAlī.
15 – Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Khālid al-Mawṣilī ** (d)
An imam and reliable transmitter, Abū ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī, who resided in Baghdad.
He studied under Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, Sharīk, Abū ʿAwānah, Muḥammad ibn Thābit, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Dāwūd—with a single ḥadith—Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Muṭayyan, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, and others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad relates on the authority of Ibn Maʿīn: “There is nothing objectionable about him.”
Yazīd ibn Muḥammad says in The History of Mosul: “He displayed righteousness and virtue and narrated a large number of ḥadiths.”
Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī said, “Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿUmar narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā (1), from …”