He said: Thereupon Abū al-ʿAbbās wrote, “Whoever transmits this from me is a liar; it is not found in my book.” (1)
Abū al-ʿAbbās died on the twenty-third of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in the year 346 AH.
His father passed away in the opening days of 277 AH at Naysābūr, aged roughly sixty. He was a man of knowledge and discernment.
He had heard ḥadith from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include his son, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, and others; his calligraphy was exquisite.
259 – Ibn Abī Thābit, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Sāmarī
The judge, the imam, the highly trusted centenarian: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Thābit al-ʿAbsī, the Iraqi from Sāmarrāʾ, long-time resident of Damascus, its deputy judge, and the holder of that lofty-isnād juzʾ kept by Karīmah.
He heard ḥadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Saʿdān ibn Naṣr, and Zakariyyā al-Marwazī,