Abū al-Mufaḍḍal al-Shaybānī, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd Allāh (297–387/910–997), was a Shiʿi traditionist from Iraq. In the sources his lineage is traced back to Dhuhl b. Shaybān (al-Najāshī, 396; al-Khaṭīb, 1/466–467).

He was originally from Kūfa (al-Najāshī, 396; al-Khaṭīb, 1/466–467) but went to Baghdad before he was seven years old (al-Ṭūsī, al-Amālī, 2/221). According to his own account, he first attended a formal session of ‘hearing’ (istimāʿ) the narration of Prophetic traditions in 306/918 (al-Khaṭīb, 5/468…