“May my paternal and maternal uncles be ransomed for you.” Singular (1).
237 – Ibn Ṣāḥib, al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāḥib ibn Ḥumayd al-Shashī *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and roving scholar: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāḥib ibn Ḥumayd al-Shashī.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn Khashram; Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī; Ibn Wārah; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī; Isḥāq al-Dabarī; Yūnus ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAdanī; and others of their rank in Khurasan, Iraq, Syria, the Two Sanctuaries, Yemen, and Egypt.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Qaffāl al-Shashī; Abū Bakr al-Jiʿābī; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muẓaffar; others; and Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī.
Al-Khaṭīb (2) declared him reliable and said: “He died in 314 AH, in his early eighties.”
Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī informed us; Jaʿfar al-Hamdānī narrated to us; al-Silafī informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār informed us; Abū Yaʿlā al-Khalīlī informed us; Abū Ḥātim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, the ḥāfiẓ, told me; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Qaffāl informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāḥib al-Shashī narrated to us; Yūnus ibn Ibrāhīm informed us—