and among those who related traditions from him were Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, and the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd.

Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.”⦗1⦘

It has been reported that al-Nasāʾī also transmitted from him, yet nothing is known to have been taken from him except the variant Qur’an readings.

He was a staunch adherent of the Sunnah. When the Imām learned that his son-in-law had voiced an aberrant view concerning the Qur’an, he invoked blessings for Abū Shuʿayb, for the latter immediately confronted the man and compelled him to separate from his daughter.

He died at the beginning of 261 AH, having reached nearly ninety years of age.

In that same year also died: Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Ruhāwī the ḥāfiẓ, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAjlī the ḥāfiẓ, Shuʿayb ibn Ayyūb al-Ṣarīfīnī, ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb and his brother Muḥammad, ʿAlī ibn Sahl al-Ramlī, ʿĪsā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mathrūd, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ghālib al-ʿAṭṭār, and others.

165 – ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Wardān al-Baghdādī * (Q, S)

The imam and reliable hadith scholar, Abū Yaḥyā al-Baghdādī, later known as al-Balkhī al-ʿAsqalānī, so called after ʿAsqalān-Balkh, a sizeable quarter.