ibn ʿAlī ibn Duḥaym al-Shaybānī, the Kūfan.
He received ḥadith from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah al-ʿAbsi, the fuller; Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-ʿAnbas, the judge; Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn Gharzah al-Ghifārī; and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Ḥākim, Abū Bakr ibn Mardāwayh, the judge Abū Bakr al-Ḥayrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Khushaysh al-Tamīmī, Abū Manṣūr al-Ẓafar ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAlawī, Zayd ibn Abī Hāshim al-ʿAlawī, the judge Janāḥ ibn Nadhīr al-Muḥāribī, and several others.
His narrations are cited in the compilations of al-Bayhaqī and in al-Thaqafiyyāt (1), and he was regarded as one of the reliable transmitters.
He lived on until 351 AH, and I have yet to discover the exact year of his death. Later I found that Ibn Ḥammād al-Kūfī dated events in 352 AH and noted that Ibn Duḥaym was still narrating at the end of that year.
He said: “He was righteous, truthful, though of limited knowledge; his audition consisted of what he had in his father’s books.”
- Shujāʿ, Abū al-Fawāris ibn Jaʿfar al-Baghdādī, the book-dealer*
The venerable, long-lived scholar, preacher, and chief musnid of Baghdad in his day: Abū al-Fawāris Shujāʿ ibn Jaʿfar al-Baghdādī, the warrāq (bookseller).
He heard from: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-ʿUṭāridī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn