هشام بن الكلبي

هشام بن الكلبي

The genealogist Ibn al-Kalbi — dead in 204, the year of al-Shafi'i's death ¹. Tarikh Baghdad (#7386): a Kufan who came to Baghdad and transmitted from his father; his pupils include his son al-'Abbas, Khalifa b. Khayyat, Shabba al-Misfari, Muhammad b. Sa'd (al-Waqidi's katib), Muhammad b. Abi'l-Sari and Abu'l-Ash'ath Ahmad b. al-Miqdam; his own boast — 'I memorised what no one memorised and forgot what no one forgot' — and that he learnt the Qur'an in three days; Ahmad b. Hanbal dismissed him as 'a man of genealogy and verse, no one transmits his hadith'; died 204, another report 206 ².