Among those who narrated from him were ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Dārānī, ʿAlī ibn Bushrā, Makkī ibn al-Ghamr, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf, Makkī ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib, and several others.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī declared him reliable.
He conducted dictation sessions in the great mosque of Damascus.
“Zamzām” is spelled with two dotted zāʾs.
He passed away in Shawwāl, 368 AH.
215 – al-Ghadanfar Abū Taghlib ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Taghlibī *
The king Abū Taghlib, son of the lord of Mosul, Nāṣir al-Dawla al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamdān al-Taghlibī.
He was a courageous, politically astute man. When his father assumed the black garb of sovereignty, Abū Taghlib arrested him, confined him, and took control of Mosul. He fought ʿAḍud al-Dawla but was unable to prevail and withdrew to al-Raḥba. He then fled from his cousin Saʿd al-Dawla, ruler of Aleppo, and from the Banū Kilāb tribe, for ʿAḍud al-Dawla had spurred them on against him. Reaching the outskirts of al-Ghūṭa, he headed toward Damascus and pressed it hard, but Qassām(1) and his followers resisted him. He therefore sent his secretary to al-ʿAzīz, the ruler of Egypt, seeking assistance. Next he moved to Ḥawrān, where his cousin Abū al-Ghitrīf left him and went to serve ʿAḍud al-Dawla. News then arrived from al-ʿAzīz summoning him, and he hesitated; afterward he settled in Tiberias. Al-ʿAzīz dispatched an army to capture Damascus. Abū Taghlib joined them, but soon became wary of him and drew off, and the emir