and swallowing up the very words, then this is a repeatedly confirmed prohibition. By Allah, corruption has become widespread, innovations have come to the fore, the Sunnah has been obscured, and those who speak the truth are few. Indeed, were a scholar today to voice the truth with sincerity, a number of the scholars of the age would rise against him, loathe him, and brand him ignorant—there is no might nor power except with Allah.

96 – Ibn Shīrawayh ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Qurashī
The imām, hadith master, and jurist: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Shīrawayh b. Asad al-Qurashī, al-Muṭlabī, al-Naysābūrī, author of several works.

He was born in the teens of the third century AH (between 210 and 219 AH).

He heard hadith from: Isḥāq b. Rāhwayh, ʿAmr b. Zurārah, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muʿāwiyah al-Jumaḥī, Aḥmad b. Manīʿ, Abū Kurayb, Hannād b. al-Sarī, Ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī, Khālid b. Yūsuf al-Samti, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, and their peers.

He received the entire Musnad from Isḥāq.

Those who narrated from him include: the Imām of the Imāms Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Akhram, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ, Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī, ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿd, Abū Ḥāmid b. al-Sharqī, Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥamdān, and others.

Al-Ḥākim said: “Ibn Shīrawayh the jurist was one of the leading figures of Naysābūr. He authored many books that testify to his integrity and uprightness, and the hadith masters of our land transmitted from him”—then he named a number of them—“and they relied upon his reports.”

I heard Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid say: I heard Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAbdawī say: I heard ʿAbd Allāh b. Shīrawayh say:

Bundār said to me, “O Ibn Shīrawayh, show me what you have written from me, for you have transmitted a great deal on my authority.”

He continued, “So I gathered together what I had written from him in…"