Ahmed bin Sulemaan bin Abdul Malik bin Abi Shaybah

Name:

أحمد بن سليمان بن عبد الملك بن أبى شيبة : يزيد بن لاعى الجزرى ، أبو الحسين الرهاوى

Ahmed bin Sulemaan bin Abdul Malik bin Abi Shaybah: Yazeed bin Laa’ee al-Jazri, Abu al-Husayn ar-Ruhaawi

Tabaqah: 11 - From Middle Level of those who narrated from Taba Taabi'een

Death: 261 H

Narrated by: Nasaa'ee

Teachers: Ja’far bin Awn al-Umri, Rooh bin Ubaadah, Surayj bin Yoonus, Sa’eed bin Marwaan al-Azdi, Abu Qataadah al-Harraani, Ubaydullah bin Moosa, Affaan bin Muslim as-Saffaar, Abu Nu’aym al-Fadl bin Dukayn, Yahya bin Aadam al-Koofi, Yazeed bin Haaroon, and others.

Students: Al-Nasaa’ee, Abu Aroobah al-Harraani, Uthmaan bin Muhammad al-Harraani, Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abd us-Salaam Makhool al-Bayrooti, Muhammad bin al-Musayyab bin Ishaaq and others.

Status: Thiqah Thabat

Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:

Those who praised him:

1-    Imaam Al-Nasaa’ee (D. 303) said: “He is Thiqah Ma’moon; The man of Hadeeth”

[ Masheekhah al-Nasaa’ee (1/56)]

2-    Imaam Ibn Abi Haatim ar-Raazi (D. 327) said: “…And he is Sadooq Thiqah”

[ Al-Jarh wat Ta'deel by Ibn Abi Haatim (2/53)]

3-    Imaam Ibn Hibbaan (D. 354) mentioned him in Ath-Thiqaat and said: “He is the man of hadeeth, he preserves”

[ Ath-Thiqaat by Ibn Hibbaan (8/35)]

4-    Imaam Abu Aroobah al-Harraani said: “Kaana Thabatan fil Akhaz wal Adaa”

[ Taareekh al-Jazriyeen with reference from Tahdheeb at-Tahdheeb (1/34)]

5-    Imaam Shams ud-Deen adh-Dhahabi (D. 748) said: “He is al-Imaam al-Haafidh al-Naaqid…. The Muhaddith of al-Jazeerah”

[ Siyar A'laam al-Nabula by Dhahabi (12/475)]

6-    Haafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalaani (D. 852) said: “He is Thiqah Haafidh”

[ Taqreeb at-Tahdheeb by Ibn Hajar (1/80)]

7-    Haafidh Ibn al-Ammaad al-Hanbali (D. 676) said: “He is Thiqah Thabat”

[ Shadhraat adh-Dhahab by Ibn al-Ammaad (3/266)]

Those who criticized him:

None!