and al-ʿAwwām ibn Murājim, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār, Wuhayb ibn Khālid, and others of their generation.
Transmitters from him include: the judge Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrādh, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, the judge Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Judhūʿī, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdah ibn Ḥarb, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Ibrāhīm ibn Hāshim al-Baghawī, and many others besides them.
Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy. Al-Nasāʾī also recorded his narrations and said that he died in 231 AH.
Mūsā ibn Hārūn related: “I asked him about his birth, and he replied, ‘In 146 AH.’” He (Mūsā) added, “and he passed away in 233 AH.”
His namesake: the truthful hadith scholar—
21 – Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Nīlī, from Basra
al-Nīl is a small settlement situated between Wāsiṭ and Kūfa.
He studied under Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Abū ʿAwanah, Salām ibn Abī Muṭīʿ, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, and Abū Yaʿlā.
Al-Nasāʾī likewise cited his reports, and he has been rated trustworthy.