155 – Ibn Mathrūd, ʿĪsā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghāfiqī (D, S)
The Imām, jurist, and ḥadīth scholar Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mathrūd al-Ghāfiqī—their client, an Egyptian—was counted among the trustworthy transmitters.
He studied under Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād, and many more.
Al-Nasāʾī said, “There is no harm in him.” ⦗1⦘
Ibn Abī Ḥātim reported, “He died before I reached Egypt.” ⦗2⦘
Ibn Yūnus stated that he passed away in Ṣafar of the year 261 AH.
In that same year also died: Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Ruhāwī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī, Shuʿayb ibn Ayyūb al-Ṣarīfīnī, Abū Shuʿayb Ṣāliḥ ibn Ziyād al-Sūsī, ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb and his brother Muḥammad, ʿAlī ibn Sahl al-Ramli, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ghālib al-ʿAṭṭār, and a host of others.