Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī also mentioned Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Farrāʾ, the ḥāfiẓ, saying, “His mastery of memorization is superior to that of Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ.” Abū Zurʿah made this remark and linked the two men only because both were famed for the precision of their retention.
124 – Ishāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl, Ibrāhīm ibn Kāmijar * (B, D, S)
A leading scholar (imām), ḥadith master (ḥāfiẓ), and reliable authority (thiqah).
He narrated from Shurayk; Ḥammād ibn Zayd; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī l-Zinād; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Zayd; Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān; ʿAbd al-Quddūs ibn Ḥabīb; Kathīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ubulī—the transmitter from Anas ibn Mālik—and many others.
He also met Zāʾidah ibn Qudāmah.
Date of birth: 150 AH, according to Mūsā ibn Hārūn.
Those who reported from him include: Abū Dāwūd; through an intermediary, al-Nasāʾī; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī in his Book of Etiquette; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī; Mūsā ibn Hārūn; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājah; Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Thaqafī; Abū Ḥāmid al-Ḥaḍramī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī; and Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Farāʾiḍī, who transmitted from him the reading (ḥarf) of al-Kisāʾī. He also conveyed the reading of Ibn ʿĀmir from al-Walīd ibn Muslim, by way of his narration from Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith on his authority.
Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah and ʿUthmān al-Dārimī both reported from Yaḥyā that he was “trustworthy,” then