baskets and carried them to him on the back of a porter. He looked through them and remarked, “You have ruined me financially, and the scribes have ruined you!”
Aḥmad b. al-Khaḍir al-Shāfiʿī said: I heard Ibn Khuzaymah say,
“I would watch ʿAbd Allāh b. Shīrawayh engage in debate while I was still a boy, and I used to wonder, ‘Will I ever attain the knowledge that Ibn Shīrawayh has attained?’ ”
Al-Ḥākim said: In the Ḥijaz, Ibn Shīrawayh heard the collection of Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah from al-ʿAdanī.
Ibrāhīm b. Abī Ṭālib said: “Isḥāq (Ibn Rāhwayh) would not repeat a narration for anyone, yet I marvel that nothing—meaning for Ibn Shīrawayh—escaped him (1) of the Musnad!”
Then he added, “I saw that he enjoyed a special standing with Isḥāq on account of his father.”
I say: Their ancestor Shīrawayh is Shīrawayh b. Asad b. Aʿyan b. Yazīd b. Rukānah b. ʿAbd Yazīd b. Hāshim b. al-Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Quṣayy b. Kilāb, of the Muṭṭālibī line.
Rukānah (2) was a well-known Companion, extraordinarily strong; he wrestled with the Prophet ﷺ, and the Prophet threw him.
Aḥmad b. Hibat Allāh informed us—through ʿAbd al-Muʿizz b. Muḥammad; Zāhir b. Ṭāhir; Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī; Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥamdān; ʿAbd Allāh b. Shīrawayh—who said: Abū Kurayb narrated to us; Ibn Idrīs narrated to us, from Ibn Isḥāq