A large number of his narrations have come down to us, in addition to what we hold by formal ijazah in the Ghaylāniyyāt collection.
189 – al-Barallusī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Dāwūd
The shaykh, imām, ḥāfiẓ, and meticulous master: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Asadī, a scholar of Greater Syria, born in Ṣūr (Tyre), known as al-Barallusī—pronounced with two fatḥahs followed by a ḍammah on the lām (1).
He heard ḥadith from ʿĀdam ibn Abī Iyās, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī, and others of their generation.
He was one of the great repositories of knowledge. Ibn Jawṣā said, “I compared notes with him, and he was truly among the vessels of ḥadith.”
I say: those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Harawī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Abū al-Fawāris al-Sindī, and many others.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said, “He was one of the reliable, meticulous ḥuffāẓ. He died in Egypt, in Shaʿbān of the year 270 AH.”
Ibn ʿAsākir (2) added: “He heard from Abū Mushir, Rawwād ibn al-Jarrāḥ, Bakkār ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sayrīnī, Yaḥyā al-Wuḥāḍī, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Rabbih, and several others he named.”