Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned him (4/1/188), and al-Khaṭīb included his biography in "al-Tārīkh" (13/100) with narration from a group of ḥadīth scholars about him; among them Abū Yaḥyá Ṣāʿiqah—who is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, the narrator from him here—and among them Mūsá ibn Hārūn al-Ḥāfiẓ, who said: "He died in the year forty (meaning two hundred and forty), and I wrote from him in Baghdad." Al-Khaṭīb said: "And he was trustworthy." Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (9/198) and said: "He might make mistakes." He narrated several ḥadīths in "Ṣaḥīḥ," and these are their numbers (441, 4434, 5693, 7340 - al-Iḥsān), and one of them was previously mentioned as number (2801). He has another ḥadīth with al-Bazzār (2/86/1265), whose isnād was deemed good by al-Ḥāfiẓ, and al-Haythamī did not recognize him in both. However, here he said (2/285): "Narrated by al-Bazzār, and its men are trustworthy!" Similarly, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Fatḥ" (2/554). Based on this, the isnād is good. Al-Mundhirī also said this (2/212/37). He was followed; al-Ṭaḥāwī narrated it in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/208), and al-Dāraqutnī in "Sunan" (1/409/11) from two other paths from Makhlad ibn al-Ḥusayn with it in a summarized form with the wording: