one hundred loaves. I put them in a bag, then set off to Shabābah at al-Madāʾin. I stood at his door for a hundred days, dipping a loaf in the Tigris and eating it; when the loaves were finished I left. (1)
He died in the year 259 AH.
In that same year Abū Ḥudhāfah al-Sahmī, Abū Isḥāq al-Jūzajānī, Isḥāq ibn Wahb, Isḥāq al-Baghawī—known as Luʾluʾ—Bishr ibn Maṭar, Maḥmūd ibn Ādam, ʿAlī ibn Maʿbad in Egypt, and Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Maḥmish also passed away.
111 – al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Tawbah (Kht, 4)
The ḥāfiẓ, the authoritative Imām, Abū al-Faḍl, al-ʿAnbarī of Baṣrah.
He narrated ḥadith from: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān, Muʿādh ibn Hishām, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, ʿUmar ibn Yūnus, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, and many others.
He travelled widely in pursuit of knowledge and was deeply versed in the transmitted reports.
Al-Bukhārī cites him in muʿallaq form, while the other collectors heard from him directly. Among those who narrated from him are Baqī ibn Makhlad, Abū Ḥātim, ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, Ibn Khuzaymah, ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, Zakarīyā al-Sājī, and others.