45 – Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah * (S, Q)
Abū Shaybah al-ʿAbsī, the Kūfan.
Born during the lifetime of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah.
He received hadith from: Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn—his senior-most teacher—ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā, Abū Nuʿaym, Qabīṣah, his father, his paternal uncles, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn Mājah; Abū ʿAwanah in his Ṣaḥīḥ; al-Nasāʾī in al-Yawm wa-l-Laylah; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqdah; Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim; and a number of others.
He was counted among Imām Aḥmad’s students in jurisprudence, and legal questions are transmitted from him on Aḥmad’s authority.
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable (ṣadūq).”
I add: He died in 265 AH.
46 – al-Ḥizāmī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shaybah ** (Kh, S)
The ḥadith scholar, Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shaybah al-Ḥizāmī, their client, from Madinah.
He narrated from: Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah al-Taymī; Mūsā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī; Ibn Abī Fudayk; al-Walīd ibn Muslim; Abū Nubātah Yūnus ibn Yaḥyā; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn