ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-Qummī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali
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Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-Qummī (d. after 307/919) was one of the most important Imāmī traditionists (muḥaddith) of the pre-Būyid period. His family was originally from Kufa. His father, Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim, who is said to have been acquainted with the eighth imām , ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Riḍā (d. 202/818), emigrated to Qum and, according to the bio-bibliographers, became the first to spread the Kufan traditions in that Iranian city (al-Najāshī, 16; al-Ṭūsī, 4; al-Māmaqānī, no. 218). ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm