282 – ʿUbayd ibn Ghannam ibn the judge Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth al-Kūfī
The imam, hadith scholar, and man of proven honesty, Abū Muḥammad al-Nakhāʿī, al-Kūfī.
It was said that his personal name was ʿAbd Allah.
He narrated from: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr, Jabarah ibn al-Mughalis, ʿAlī ibn Ḥakīm al-Awdi, Abū Kurayb, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda, Yazīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Iyās al-Mawṣilī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Bakr ʿUbayd Allah ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṭalḥī, and others.
He reported abundantly from Ibn Abī Shaybah (1).
According to Ibn ʿUqda, he was born in 211 AH, and he died in mid-Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 297 AH.
The compilations of Abū Nuʿaym are filled with the hadiths of Ibn Ghannam, and he is deemed reliable.
= Ismail b. Yahya b. Ubayd Allah was branded a liar by several hadith authorities, and Sayf b. Wahb is a weak transmitter. Ibn Adi cited the report under his entry in Al-Kamil, fol. 374.
A sound replacement for it is the hadith of Jubayr b. Mutim, recorded by Malik (2/1004), al-Bukhari (6/404), Muslim (no. 2354) and al-Tirmidhi (no. 2840), in which the Prophet says: “I have five names: I am Muhammad, I am Ahmad, I am al-Mahi by whom Allah erases disbelief, I am al-Hashir at whose feet people will be gathered, and I am al-Aqib.” Similar narrations are reported from Abu Musa al-Ashari in Muslim (no. 2355), from Hudhayfa in Ahmad (5/405), from Jabir b. Abd Allah in al-Tabarani’s Al-Kabir (no. 1750) and Al-Awsat, and from Ibn Abbas in al-Tabarani’s Al-Saghir and Al-Awsat, as quoted in Majmaʿ (8/284).
(*) Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 2/660 (end of the biography of Yusuf al-Qadi); Al-Ibar, 2/107; Shadharat al-dhahab, 2/225.
(1) The author states in Al-Ibar, 2/107: “He transmitted written works from Abu Bakr b. Abi Shaybah; he was a trustworthy hadith scholar.”