ibn Abī Ṭālib, al-Hāshimī, of the Ṭālibī branch, and a Medinan by residence.

His mother was Zaynab, the daughter of Imām ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

He narrated from: Ibn ʿUmar, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Anas ibn Mālik, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, his maternal uncle Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyya, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwiḍ (a female Companion), Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include: al-Thawrī, Zāʾida, Fulayḥ, Ḥammād ibn Salama, Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiya, Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad, and a number of others.

Imām Aḥmad and others adduced his narrations as proof.

Abū Ḥātim said: “His ḥadith is soft.”

Ibn Khuzayma remarked: “I do not rely on him because of his poor memory.”

Al-Tirmidhī reported: “I heard Muḥammad (i.e., al-Bukhārī) say that Aḥmad, Isḥāq, and al-Ḥumaydī used to accept his ḥadith as evidence.”

Al-Bukhārī judged him: “His narrations are nearly acceptable.”

Ibn Maʿīn deemed him weak.

Ibn al-Madīnī said: “Mālik did not include him in his works, and Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān would not narrate from him.”

Another scholar said: “He was among the learned worshippers.”

Al-Fasawī commented: “Truthful, though his ḥadith contains weakness.”

I (the author) say: His reports do not reach the level of soundness required for legal proof.

Khalīfa and Ibn Saʿd recorded that Ibn ʿAqīl died after 140 AH.

99 – Ghālib al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Salamah ibn Khaṭṭāf * (ʿ)

He was the jurist Abū Salamah ibn Abī Ghaylān Khaṭṭāf— with a fatḥa on the initial consonant. Some said the name is Khutāf. He was a client of the governor ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kurayz al-Qurashī.

He received ḥadith from al-Ḥasan, Ibn Sīrīn, and Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh.