and possessed keen intellectual acumen. He held back from narrating any reports from Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā because he had been only a youth when he attended him. He died in 301 AH.
I say: he had passed the age of ninety.
His father, too, was a transmitter of hadith.
64 – Ibrāhīm ibn Sharīk ibn al-Faḍl, Abū Isḥāq al-Asadī
An imam and hadith scholar, Abū Isḥāq al-Asadī was originally from Kūfa but later settled in Baghdad.
He related hadith from Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Yarbūʿī, Munjāb ibn al-Ḥārith, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, ʿUqbah ibn Mukram, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include Makhlad ibn Jaʿfar al-Bāqarḥī, Abū Hāshim al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaddād, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn al-Zayyāt, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Luʾluʾ al-Warrāq, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zuhri, and others.
Ibn al-Zayyāt reported: “I heard Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda say, ‘No one has come to you more reliable than Ibrāhīm ibn Sharīk.’”
Al-Dāraqutnī likewise judged him “trustworthy.”
I say: he died in Baghdad in 301 AH, after which his body was carried to Kūfa. Another opinion places his death in 302 AH, and he was then in his tenth decade.