“That is what I expected of you—or rather, that is precisely the opinion I have always held of you.” (1)

Yazīd b. Muḥammad said: Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī related to us: ʿUmar b. Shabbah recited to us, on the authority of Abū Ghaziyyah:

Do not let a brother’s single slip
Turn your heart away from him;
A man is often cast aside
By those who stand the closest to him;
He is betrayed by confidants—
By those admitted to his inmost circle;
And death remains the gravest blow
That ever strikes the human frame.

101 – Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Naysābūrī
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, and distinguished leader, Abū Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī—one of the eminent dignitaries and chiefs of his town.

He heard (hadith) from his maternal grandfather; from the judge Naṣr b. Ziyād; from Isḥāq b. Rāhūyah—he read that scholar’s Musnad to him—and from ʿAmr b. Zurārah, Muḥammad b. Muqātil, Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān, Muḥammad b. Ḥumayd, Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī al-Makkī, Salamah b. Shabīb, and others.

Those who narrated from him include: Muʾammal b. al-Ḥasan; the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī; Aḥmad b. Abī ʿUthmān al-Ḥīrī; Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan; Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥamdān; and many others.