Ibn Nāṣir said, “Abū Ṭālib’s audition was sound. He was accused of Muʿtazilī leanings, yet I never heard anything of that from him.”
Al-Sillafī added, “Abū Ṭālib al-Zaynabī is the most distinguished Hāshimī I have ever met, whether while resident or travelling—the most learned of them all and one of the foremost dialecticians.”
I say: A record shows that he attended a session with Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Qashīsh (1) in 428 AH.
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah al-Karkhī, the Shāfiʿī jurist, said, “I fell gravely ill, and Nūr al-Hudā came to visit me. He prayed earnestly for my recovery; I considered his visit a blessing, and I was cured.”
210 – Shujāʿ ibn Fāris ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fāris ibn Ḥusayn ibn Gharīb ibn Bashīr
The imam, traditionist, reliable authority, ḥāfiẓ, and teacher; Abū Ghālib al-Dhuhlī, al-Suhrawardī, later al-Baghdādī, al-Ḥarīmī, the copyist.
He heard (ḥadith) from his father, Abū Ṭālib ibn Ghaylān, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Azajī, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Muqtadir, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, and many others, until he joined the circle of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān,