—with Ibrāhīm.

One day a hadith came up, and Yaḥyā remarked, “We have already heard it.” Ibrāhīm replied, “You heard it in Persian; today you will hear it in Arabic.”

I heard some of our companions relate from Ibn Wahb al-Dīnawarī who said, “We used to review hadith with Ibrāhīm, and we went through them by the satchel-load.” ⦗1⦘

I heard my father report from Ibn Mājah al-Qazwīnī that he said, “What kept me from traveling to Ibrāhīm was my lack of means.”

I also heard Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad say: “When Ibrāhīm arrived, al-Duḥaymī said to me, ‘Ibrāhīm ibn al-Kisāʾī has come; tomorrow we shall attend his session.’ When we appeared, Ibrāhīm began, ‘The first narration we shall review is: Ādam ibn Abī Iyās told us…’ That irritated al-Duḥaymī, who said, ‘You might have said something better!’ I said to him, ‘You say that?’ He replied, ‘He has put us on the same level as the children!’”

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad the ḥāfiẓ said: I heard my father relate from ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā: “If the chain of transmission Ibrāhīm brings were to contain a ruling that bread must not be eaten, it would be obligatory to refrain from eating it, so reliable is his isnād.”

Al-Ḥākim said: I was informed that Ibn Dīzīl said, “I wrote down the hadith of Abū Jamrah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, through ʿAffān, and I heard it from him four hundred times.”

Al-Qāsim ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ said: I heard Ibrāhīm ibn Dīzīl say: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said to me, “Narrate to me the collection of al-Layth from Ibn ʿAjlān, for I missed it when studying with Abū Ṣāliḥ.” I replied, “This is not the time.” He asked, “When will it be?” I said, “When you die.”