al-Ashajj, ʿUbayd ibn Asbāṭ, and a number of scholars in Kūfa; he also received narration from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī—the companion of Ibn al-Mubārak—and from Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Busrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Azraqī, Khallād ibn Aslam, and Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhzūmī.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Dāraquṭnī, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, Ibn al-Muqriʾ, Zāhir ibn Aḥmad the jurist, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣalt al-Mujabbir, and others.

Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “I heard the judge Muḥammad ibn Umm Shaybān say: ‘On the back of the copy of the Muwattaʾ that had been read aloud by Abū Muṣʿab I saw an old, sound certificate of audition stating that the emir ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Mūsā al-Hāshimī and his son Ibrāhīm (1) had heard it.’”

Hamza al-Sahmī said, “I heard Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Luʾluʾ say: ‘I traveled to Sāmarrāʾ to meet Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad so that I might hear the Muwattaʾ from him, but I found that he possessed no reliable master copy; so I left and did not take any narration (2) from him.’”

He died in Sāmarrāʾ at the beginning of Muḥarram, 325 AH, at a little over ninety years of age.

In the year four (304 AH) he dictated several sessions, which Ibn al-Ṣalt heard from him.

Those who died at the same time were: Abū Muzāḥim al-Khāqānī the Qurʾān reciter, Makkī ibn ʿAbdān, Abū Bakr, the agent of Abū Ṣakhrah, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, and Abū al-Ghamr ʿUbaydūn (3) ibn Muḥammad.