upright and devout. He kept a stall in the linen market and taught jurisprudence.
He heard hadith from Muhammad ibn Lubābah and the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Khālid, and he composed the well-known book al-Naṣāʾiḥ (“Counsels”).
Ibn ʿAfīf said: “He was a man of learning, insight, sound intellect, solid religion, asceticism, and distance from the ruling authorities; for Allah’s sake he feared no critic’s reproach.”
Ibn al-Farāḍī said: “Abū Ibrāhīm had the fiqh committed to memory, was a leading authority in giving fatwas, dignified and respected. His knowledge of hadith, however, was not extensive. He wrote a work entitled Maʿālim al-Ṭahārah (“Landmarks of Purification”). The Commander of the Faithful, al-Ḥakam, held him in great esteem; whenever Abū Ibrāhīm entered, he would stretch out his legs and apologize on account of his shaykh’s age, whereupon al-Ḥakam would say, ‘Sit however you please.’
He was frank, showing little awe of kings. Al-Ḥakam once back-bit a man; Abū Ibrāhīm fell silent and lowered his head, so al-Ḥakam broke off and realized his mistake. The ruler also tried to persuade him to bring his young son Aḥmad to court, but he replied, “He is not yet ready for that.”
Abū Ibrāhīm died in 352 AH, and he will be mentioned again (1).

62 – Ibn al-Ḥaddād, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Asadī
The hadith scholar of unquestioned authority: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAṭiyyah ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Asadī al-Zubayrī, their client, from Baghdad, later resident in Tinnīs.
He heard from: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Rawwās, Anas ibn al-Sallam, Bakr ibn Sahl, and Yūsuf al-Qāḍī.
Transmitted from him: Ibn Jahḍam, ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Azdī, Ibn al-Naḥḥās, and Ibn