Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Ibn Qudāmah informed us; Ibn al-Baṭṭī informed us; Abū Bakr al-Ṭuraythīthī narrated to us; Hibatu l-Lāh al-Lālakāʾī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to me; Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah informed us; al-Ḥārith ibn Miskīn informed us; Ibn Wahb and Ibn al-Qāsim both said:
Mālik stated, “Zayd ibn Aslam was appointed over the mine of the Banū Sulaym. The place was regarded as perilous, for people there were continually harmed by the jinn. When Zayd assumed authority they complained to him, so he ordered them to make the adhān—raising their voices with it. They did so, and the affliction has left them to this very day.”
Mālik added, “That solution proposed by Zayd ibn Aslam greatly impressed me.”
154 – Al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanṭab al-Qurashī al-Makhzūmī, the Medinan (4)
A reliable transmitter. His grandfather, Ḥanṭab ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿUbayd al-Makhzūmī, embraced Islam at the Conquest of Mecca.
Al-Muṭṭalib narrated muʿdal reports from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb and others, and he transmitted directly from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, Ibn ʿAbbās, Jābir, Abū Hurayrah, and several others.
Narrators who reported from him include his sons al-Ḥakam and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿAmr, their freedman; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs; Ibn Jurayj; al-Awzāʿī; Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad; and many more.
He was graded trustworthy by Abū Zurʿah and al-Dāraquṭnī.
He was a nephew of Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam and also a nephew of Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He did not meet ʿĀʾishah, and most of his narrations are mursal.”
Abū Zurʿah said, “I hope he did hear from her.”
Ibn Saʿd remarked, “His hadiths are not used as proof, because he frequently omits the link.”
I (the author) add: He visited the caliph Hishām, who presented him with seventeen thousand dinars.
He was still alive around the year 220 AH.