Ibn Ulayyah

Isma'il ibn Ibrahim ibn Miqsam al-Asadi, Abu Bishr of Basra, of Kufan origin, universally known as Ibn 'Ulya after his mother, was a jurist and mufti counted among the imams of hadith — "the imam, the master scholar, the firm memoriser". Born in 110 AH, the year al-Hasan al-Basri died, he died in 193 AH. ¹

He heard Yunus ibn 'Ubayd, Ishaq ibn Suwayd, 'Ali ibn Zayd, Humayd al-Tawil, Layth ibn Abi Sulaym, Sa'id al-Jurayri, Ibn Jurayj, Khalid al-Hadhdha', Rawh ibn al-Qasim, Sulayman al-Taymi, Dawud ibn Abi Hind and many others. His own teachers Ibn Jurayj and Shu'ba narrated from him, as did Hammad ibn Zayd, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, 'Ali ibn al-Madini, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahya ibn Ma'in, Khalifa ibn Khayyat and a great number. ¹

Al-Dhahabi defended him against those who attacked him, stating that the scholars of the community are agreed on accepting the testimony of Isma'il ibn Ibrahim, the upright and trusted, and he quotes his declaration "the Qur'an is the speech of God, uncreated". ¹