10 – Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ al-Naysābūrī, Abū Isḥāq
The imam, ḥadīth master, exemplar, and devout worshiper—also known as Abū Isḥāq al-Arghiyānī—the jurist who settled in Baghdad.
He was born some time after 180 AH.
He journeyed far and wide, and heard ḥadith from: Muḥammad and Yaʿlā, the two sons of ʿUbayd; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd al-Khuraibī; Abū al-Mughīrah ʿAbd al-Quddūs; ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh; ʿAffān; Yasarah ibn Ṣafwān; Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn Bilāl; Khallād ibn Yaḥyā; Saʿīd ibn ʿUfair; Aṣbagh ibn al-Faraj, and others of their rank.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Abū Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdī, Ibn Makhlad, al-Maḥāmilī, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, Muḥammad ibn Sufyān ibn Bayān, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, and many others.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “Trustworthy and precise.” (1)
Al-Ḥākim said: “Trustworthy and reliable.”
Among those who related ḥadith from him were ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs.
Al-Khaṭīb remarked: “He was one of the abdāl,” (2) and that he travelled to Syria and Iraq,