ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥarrānī, narrated by a group other than those mentioned, including Abū Zurʿah—who only narrates from trustworthy sources—and Abū Ḥātim, who said: "He is truthful." Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (9/227) and said: "His ḥadīth is reliable." Several ḥadīths were included for him in "Ṣaḥīḥ," so refer to "al-Taysīr." Abū ʿAqīl Anas ibn Salm al-Khawlānī, he is among the shaykhs who narrated extensively. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir translated him in "Tārīkh Dimashq" (3/140) and mentioned that he narrated in Damascus in the year (289) (1) from a group of shaykhs he named, including Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, and their number approached twenty shaykhs. A group of shaykhs narrated from him, exceeding ten in number, including al-Ṭabarānī and Ibn ʿAdī. No criticism or praise was mentioned about him, but the narration of these individuals from him is an endorsement for him, especially since al-Ṭabarānī narrated extensively from him, narrating nine ḥadīths in the book "al-Duʿāʾ" alone (see the first volume of "al-Duʿāʾ" edited by Dr. Muḥammad Saʿīd al-Bukhārī) and narrated three ḥadīths for him in "al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ" (1/171/3188-3190), one of which is also in "al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr" (number 689 - "al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr"). As for his peer (Aḥmad ibn Khālid ibn Masraḥ), al-Dāraquṭnī said, as in "al-Lisān": "He is nothing." It was from his path alone that al-Ṭabarānī also included it in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (2/107/