and Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad, ʿAlī ibn Shujāʿ al-Maṣqalī (1), and Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Ṣāʾigh. He also held dictation sessions in Baghdad.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn Nāṣir; Ẓāʿin ibn Muḥammad al-Zubayrī al-Khayyāṭ; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī; and a number of others, the last of them being ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Kulaib.
Ibn Nāṣir said: “He fabricated a hadith (2), dictated it, and was prone to confusion.”
I (the author) say: His transmission from Ibn Raydhah must have been mere attendance (ḥuḍūr), for his own birth—according to what has been mentioned—was in 436 AH, in the month of Rajab, whereas Ibn Raydhah died in 440 AH.
Abū Naṣr al-Yūnārtī said in his Muʿjam: “Ibn Mallah was among the approved imams; in every branch of knowledge he possessed an ample share.” (3)
Al-Silafī remarked: “He was one of the prolific narrators. He transmitted from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Fadwayh and Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Dhakawānī, and his father used to narrate from Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Bayyiʿ, the companion of al-Maḥāmilī.”
Abū ʿUthmān passed away on the second of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 509 AH, in Isfahan.