He died in 234 AH.
44 – Ibn Abī Shaybah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbsī* (Kh, M, D, S, Q)
He was the son of the judge Abū Shaybah Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khawāstā—an Imām, a distinguished authority, the foremost of the ḥuffāẓ, and the compiler of the major works: the Musnad, the Muṣannaf, and the Tafsīr. He was Abū Bakr al-ʿAbsī, a client of that tribe, from Kūfa.
He was the brother of the ḥāfiẓ ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah and of al-Qāsim ibn Abī Shaybah, who was weak. The ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Bakr was his son, and the ḥāfiẓ Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān was his nephew. They constituted a household of learning, and Abū Bakr was the most eminent among them.
He was a peer of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, and ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī in age, date of birth, and power of memorization, while Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn was several years older than all of them.
Abū Bakr embarked on the quest for knowledge while still a boy, and the greatest of his teachers was Shurayk ibn ʿAbd Allāh the judge.
He received ḥadīth from him and from: Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Sallām ibn Sulaym, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Ḥarb, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAlī ibn Mushir, ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs, Khalaf ibn Khalīfah—who is said to have been a Successor—ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿAmmi, ʿAlī ibn Hāshim ibn al-Barīd, ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭanafīsī, and his two brothers.