Abū al-Faḍl ibn Qudāmah informed us; from Maḥmūd ibn Mandah; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbdī informed us; my father informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Wāṣil narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan ibn Sawwār, from Qays, from ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān, on the authority of ʿAbbās, the freedman of Banū Hāshim:
He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw some phlegm in the mosque, so he scraped it off and then smeared the spot with saffron. (1)
120 – Ibn Abī Ghrazah, Aḥmad ibn Ḥāzim ibn Muḥammad al-Ghifārī
He was an imām, ḥadith master (ḥāfiẓ), and trustworthy transmitter: Aḥmad ibn Ḥāzim ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūnus ibn Qays ibn Abī Ghrazah, Abū ʿAmr al-Ghifārī al-Kūfī, compiler of the Musnad.
Born: in the early 180s AH.
Among those he heard from were Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Ismāʿīl ibn Abān, ʿAffān, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Muṭayyan, Ibn Duḥaym al-Shaybānī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-ʿAzāʾim, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda, and many more.
He authored a substantial Musnad, of which one section has reached us.
Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt, saying: “He was precise.”