304 – Ibn Shuʿayb, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Hārūn*

The imam, ḥadith scholar, and itinerant traveller, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Hārūn ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid.

It is also said that his name was Shuʿayb ibn ʿAlqama.

Another report states that he was Ibn Thumāma, a descendant of Anas ibn Mālik al-Anṣārī—though others denied this—and that he was a Damascene from the village of Qaynina (1), west of the Musallā (2).

He heard ḥadith in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Isfahan; he authored and compiled works, yet he was not precise.

Among those from whom he learned were ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Murādī, Abū ʿUlātha Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, Bakr ibn Sahl al-Dimyāṭī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamza, Muṭayyin, and Abū Khalīfa.

Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Muqriʾ, Ibn Mandah, Tammām, al-ʿAfīf ibn Abī Naṣr, and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī.

Al-Kattānī said, “He was suspected (3).”

He died in 353 AH at the age of eighty-seven.

A fascicle of his ḥadith has reached us through Mukram ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr.