He was born in the mid-170s AH. He transmitted ḥadith from Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb, Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah, ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr, Abū Usāmah, Bishr ibn Bakr al-Tinnīsī, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Mājah, al-Nasāʾī, Abū ʿAwanah al-Isfarāyinī, Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Balkhī, and al-Haytham ibn Kulayb al-Shāshī, who reported from him extensively.
Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is reliable.”⦗1⦘ Abū Ḥātim likewise related from him and declared him “truthful.”⦗2⦘ Among those who heard from him as well were Ḥammād ibn Shākir al-Nasafī, Ibrāhīm ibn Maʿqal, and others. In his time he was regarded as the leading musnid of those lands.
Some maintain that he was born in 180 AH—Allah knows best.
He died in 268 AH. In that same year also passed away: Aḥmad ibn Sayyār al-Marwazī, Aḥmad ibn Shaybān al-Ramli, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ḍabbī, al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Marwazī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUbayd al-Ḥakam.
166 – Shadhān, Abū Bakr Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nahshali al-Fārisī*
The imam, ḥadith scholar, and truthful authority: Abū Bakr Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah