He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī, ʿAmmār ibn Rajāʾ, Muslim—the author of the Ṣaḥīḥ—and a host of others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Harbī, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, Abū Bakr al-Jawzaqī, and Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Harbī.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Nīsābūrī said: “He is reliable, trustworthy, and preferred above his peers among the shaykhs.” (1)
The author adds: Among the earlier scholars who transmitted from him was Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda. (2)
He died in Jumada al-Ākhira, 325 AH; Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī (3) led the funeral prayer over him. He lived a little over eighty years—may Allah have mercy on him.
- The Hāshimī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Mūsā *
The emir, senior transmitter, and truthful narrator, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās al-Hāshimī, the ʿAbbāsid of Baghdad.
His father served for a time as the amīr of the ḥajj.
This Ibrāhīm was granted an audition of Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī’s reading of the Muwattaʾ, and he also heard from Abū Saʿīd