Shirawayh mentioned him, saying, “He was truthful, a ḥāfiẓ, and proficient in this discipline.” (1)
I add: He lived on until the early 400s AH, yet none of his higher-level isnāds ever came into my hands.
217 – al-Khaṣīb ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Khaṣīb al-Miṣrī *
The shaykh, scholar, trustworthy authority, and judge, Abū al-Ḥasan (2) al-Miṣrī.
He transmitted from: his father (3); ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī; Ismāʿīl ibn al-Jirāb; ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Nasāʾī; Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Marwān; Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Kūdhak; Muḥammad ibn Abī Karīmah al-Ṣaydāwī; and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Naṣr ʿUbayd Allah al-Sijzī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī; Hibat Allah ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣawwāf; Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥabbāl; and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khilaʿī.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 416 AH, at the age of eighty-something.
His standing is that of a truthful narrator.