I said: And this is a good isnād were it not for the fact that Ibrāhīm is mentioned by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in "al-Jarḥ" (1/1/89) where he said: "I asked my father about him, and he said: I do not know him." And he mentioned that al-Naḍr ibn Hishām al-Aṣbahānī and ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Bakr al-Aṣbahānī narrated from him. I said: So he is according to the criteria of Ibn Ḥibbān in "al-Thiqāt," because he usually includes anyone in it from whom even one person has narrated, so how is it when two have narrated from him as you have seen, and furthermore, a third has narrated from him: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd ibn al-Hudhail, as mentioned by the ḥāfiẓ in "al-Lisān." And although I do not know him now, unlike the first two who are truthful and are mentioned in "al-Jarḥ." Then he is mentioned in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (1/190-191) and in "al-Akhbār" (1/172-173) with what indicates his righteousness, for they mentioned - and the ḥāfiẓ followed them -: "He was a man of night prayer and worship, it was not known that he had a bed for forty years, he used to dye his hair and beard." Moreover, he has been followed up, as Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf al-ʿAqīlī said: My father narrated to us, al-Nuʿmān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām narrated to us: Abū al-ʿAwām narrated it. Abū Nuʿaym also recorded it (1/113) in the biography of Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-ʿAqīlī, and he did not mention any criticism or endorsement of him, but he listed three ḥadīths from the narration of three shaykhs from him, all of whom are trustworthy: 1 - Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm Abū Aḥmad al-Qāḍī al-ʿAssāl, the narrator of the ḥadīth from him. 2 - Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī, the ḥāfiẓ, the author of the three maʿājim