Al-Khalīlī said: “His Musnad comes to a little over thirty fascicles, and he is trustworthy.”
Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAlī ibn Mahrawayh, Sulaymān ibn Yazīd al-Fāmī, my grandfather Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, and many others.
173 – Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Abū Isḥāq ibn Isḥāq al-Baghdādī *
He is the shaykh, the Imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the erudite scholar, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Bashīr (1) al-Baghdādī, al-Ḥarbī, the author of numerous works.
He was born in 198 AH, and he began seeking knowledge while still a youth.
He heard ḥadith from Hawdhah ibn Khalīfah—the most senior teacher he encountered—ʿAffān ibn Muslim, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAmr ibn Marzūq, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī, Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī, ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, Musaddad ibn Musarhad, Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Minqarī, Shuʿayb ibn Muḥriz, Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad ibn Shabīb, Ibn Numayr, al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā, Abū Maʿmar al-Muqaʿd, and Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī,