302 – al-Hujaymī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah*

The shaykh, imām, ḥadith scholar, trustworthy elder, long-lived “musnid of the age”: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Hujaymī(1) of Basra.

Birth: in the early 250s AH.

He studied ḥadith with al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Maʿshar, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Shākir, Abū Qilābah al-Raqāshī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Danuqā, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Bazzār, and their contemporaries.

Those who reported from him include Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Bābasīrī, Ṭalḥah ibn Yūsuf the muʾadhdhin, Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Naqqāsh, and others.

Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Rāzī relates in his Maʿshyakha: “I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī say:

‘Abū Isḥāq al-Hujaymī once saw in a dream that he had wrapped a turban around his head one hundred and three times. It was interpreted to mean he would live one hundred and three years. He did not begin transmitting ḥadith until he reached a hundred; thereafter he taught. A reciter read to him and, wishing to test his mental acuity, recited:

Indeed, the coward’s doom hangs over his own head—
like a dog that guards its skin(2) with its bark(3).’”} } أرد؟ قلت: يستطيع الإجابة بشكل متناسق.