and others besides. He was a devout, God-fearing scholar. Ibn ʿAsākir mentions him only in passing, and I know of no blemish against him; in transmitting very weak reports he is in the same position as many of his peers. He lived on until roughly the year 300 AH.

38 – Ibrāhīm ibn Maḥmūd ibn Ḥamzah al-Naysābūrī
The foremost Mālikī authority in Nishapur, Abū Isḥāq al-Naysābūrī, a pupil of Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam.

He narrated from: Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, al-Rabīʿ, ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ, and their contemporaries.

Reported from him were: his nephew Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdūn, Ḥassān ibn Muḥammad the jurist, and Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naqqāsh (1).

Al-Ḥākim said: I heard Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad relate that he heard his uncle Ibrāhīm say:

“Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam once said to me, ‘No one from Khurāsān who has come to us is better acquainted with Mālik’s method than you. When you return to Khurāsān, call the people to the opinion of Mālik.’”

He (Maḥmūd) added: My uncle used to fast by day, stand in prayer by night, and he never failed to engage in jihad every three—