the breeze that reaches you is only what slips through the cracks of that gate; were it opened, it would scorch everything between heaven and earth. In Allah’s register its name is al-Arnab, while among you it is called al-Janūb, the south wind. (1) The isnād is singular (gharīb) and comes down to us with an elevated chain, two degrees higher than the version of al-Maḥāmilī.
39 – Ibn Marwān, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qurashī al-Dimashqī
He was the ḥadīth scholar and leading authority, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān al-Qurashī al-Dimashqī, from whom Ibn Mandah selected thirty fascicles.
He heard (ḥadīth) from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah; Abū ʿUlāthah al-Miṣrī; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Busriyy; Ismāʿīl ibn Qīrāṭ; Khayyāṭ al-Sunnah; Anas ibn al-Sallam, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Mandah, Tammām, Ḥuwayy ibn ʿAlī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī, Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ibn al-Simsār, and others. He also held dictation sessions.
Al-Kattānī said: “He was reliable, trustworthy, and generous. He died in Shawwāl of the year 358 AH.”
I add: His father, Abū Isḥāq (2), was likewise among the people of ḥadīth.