al-Mādarāʾī (1), and he also received a portion of Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī’s own dictations.
Those who narrated from him were: Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Māwardī; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, the preacher; Ṭalḥa ibn ʿAlī al-Mālikī; Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭāmadhī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Salaykh al-Baṣrī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Samarqandī; several others; and al-Silafī, who held his license.
As for the statement of the ḥadith scholar Abū Naṣr al-Yūnārtī that al-ʿAbbādānī transmitted the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd from al-Hāshimī, it must be rejected. When the students flocked to Abū ʿAlī al-Tustarī, Ibn Ṭāhir, Muʾtaman al-Sājī, Muḥammad ibn Marzūq al-Zaʿfarānī, and many others travelled to him, and he died in 479 AH. Had al-ʿAbbādānī actually heard the Sunan and then survived al-Tustarī by some thirteen years, travellers would have sought that book from him many times over.
Furthermore, we know of no one who narrated the Sunan from al-ʿAbbādānī or even claimed to have heard it from him. Al-Yūnārtī alone mentioned this, and I believe he was mistaken.
Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara said: “Abū Ṭāhir al-ʿAbbādānī was a righteous but illiterate man.”
Al-Silafī records in his Muʿjam of Iṣfahān: “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-Najrānī say: ‘Al-ʿAbbādānī died in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 493 AH, and it was proclaimed in Basra, ‘Whoever wishes to perform the funeral prayer over Ibn al-ʿAbbādānī the ascetic, let him attend.’ It seems that hardly anyone in the town stayed away.’”
Al-Silafī then added: “He narrated from al-Hāshimī and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Najjād. Among what he transmitted is the book Sunan of Abū Dāwūd, which he relates from Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī.”
I say: al-Silafī simply followed al-Yūnārtī’s opinion.