and Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Mattawayh, Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī, and many others.

He was counted among the leading scholars.

Al-Nasāʾī said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

Al-Ṣūlī relates: “When the caliph al-Mutawakkil forbade discussion about the Qur’an, he summoned the jurists and hadith scholars to Sāmarrāʾ—among them Ibn Abī al-Shawārib—ordered them to narrate traditions, and bestowed generous stipends upon them.”

I (the author) say: When his son al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Shawārib was appointed to the judiciary, he feared for him and said, “O Ḥasan, I seek refuge for your comely face from the Fire.”

A number of his descendants also served as judges. Chief among them was his son al-Ḥasan, who held the office of Chief Judge under the caliph al-Muʿtamad ʿalā Allāh. He was generous, widely praised, and noble-minded, and he died in his prime in 261 AH.

As for the subject of this biography, Ibn ʿAsākir reports that al-Nasāʾī judged him to be “trustworthy,” and elsewhere said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.” He also related—through an unnamed transmitter—from him.

He passed away in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 244 AH.

I (the author) add: I introduced him here by mistake; he ought to be moved to the section near Abū Muṣʿab.

33 – Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī * (D, S)

Imām, historian, truthful narrator, and author of the Maghāzī: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī,