Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: I heard Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAqīl say,
“Our shaykh Ibn Nabhān—whenever the traditionists kept the session going too long—would say, ‘Stand up, for we have a sick person in the house.’ He continued with this pretext for years, so people used to remark, ‘Ibn Nabhān’s patient will never recover.’
Ibn Nāṣir said: “Ibn Nabhān lived to ninety-six years. My grandfather, Hilāl ibn al-Muḥassin, heard him in the year 423 AH. He himself was not a hadith scholar; in his early days he handled the affairs of oppressive officials, and he was a Rāfiḍī. The sound date of his birth is 415 AH, as al-Ḥumaydī also reported, saying he found it in the handwriting of his grandfather Ibn al-Ṣābiʾ. He died in Shawwāl, 511 AH.”
159 – Ibn Bayān, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh, the truthful, the musnid, a traveller across distant lands: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bayān ibn al-Razzāz al-Baghdādī, the narrator of the fascicle (juzʾ) of Ibn ʿArafah.
He heard from: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-Bazzār; Ṭalḥah ibn al-Ṣaqr; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurfī; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān; Qāḍī Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī; and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū al-Futūḥ al-Ṭāʾī; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Khashshāb; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Quḍāʿah; Abū al-Faḍl, the Khatīb of Mosul; Wafāʾ ibn Asʿad; Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Shīḥī; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAqīl; Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Nabhān; and ʿUbayd Allāh