I [al-Dhahabī] say: his ḥadith appears with an elevated chain in the work entitled al-Qutayʿiyyāt.
It is related about Mūsā ibn Isḥāq that he was never seen smiling. A woman once said to him, “It is not lawful for you to sit in judgment, for the Prophet ﷺ said: ‘A judge must not decide between two litigants while he is angry.’ (1)”—so he smiled.
He was held up as the very example of waraʿ (scrupulous piety).
He passed away in 297 AH, in Ahwāz.
303 – Al-Bushanjī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd (2) * (Kh (3))
The Imām, the erudite authority, the ḥāfiẓ, the polymath, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mūsā al-ʿAbdī—the Mālikī jurist from Bushanj, the foremost hadith teacher of his time in Nīshāpūr.
He was born in 204 AH.
He traveled far and wide, eastward and westward, met the leading scholars, collected material, authored works, and his reputation spread far afield.