In that same year occurred the deaths of the Caliph al-Muʿtamad, Aḥmad ibn al-Khalīl al-Burjulānī (1), Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah (2), Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī (3), Abū Yaḥyā ibn Abī Masarrah (4), and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaṣṣār (5).
- Ibn Abī al-ʿAnbas – Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Zuhrī
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, and judge of Kūfah: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ibn Abī al-ʿAnbas al-Zuhrī, of Kūfah.
He heard ḥadith from Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqdah, Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Zubayr al-Qurashī, and many others.
Among the narrators who reported from him—despite being senior to him—are Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Muḥammad ibn Khalaf, and Wakīʿ.
Al-Khaṭīb said: “He was reliable, virtuous, devout, and righteous; he assumed the office of judge after Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Samāʿah (6).”
Muḥammad ibn Khalaf said: “I wrote from him in the year 253 AH, while he was serving as judge.”