He transmitted from: his father, Muslim ibn Mishkam, Abū al-Ashʿath al-Sanʿānī, and a number of others.
He was not a prolific narrator.
Those who reported from him include his son ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam, ʿUthmān ibn Ḥiṣn, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Ibn Shābūr, and others.
Ibn Shābūr said, “I heard him say: Whoever wishes to know how Allah has described Himself should read something from the opening of Sūrah al-Ḥadīd.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, in reply to ʿUthmān al-Dārimī, said: “He is truthful; there is nothing objectionable about him.”

131 – Abān ibn Taghlib al-Rabʿī al-Kūfī (M, 4)
The imam and Qur’an-reciter, Abū Saʿd. It is also said that he was Abū Umayyah al-Rabʿī, the Kufan, and a Shiʿite.
He narrated from al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtaybah, ʿAdī ibn Thābit, Fuḍayl ibn ʿAmr al-Fuqaymī, and many others.
He was of the same age as Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt; he was not counted among the Successors, though he died long ago.
He learned the Qur’anic reading from Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif and ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, and mastered memorisation under al-Aʿmash.
A large number narrated from him, among them Idrīs ibn Yazīd al-Awdi, Shuʿbah, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbd Allah ibn Idrīs al-Awdi, and others, and they recited to him.
He was personally truthful and a great scholar; his doctrinal innovation was mild and he did not speak against the senior Companions. His narrations amount to about one hundred hadiths; al-Bukhārī recorded none of them. He died in the year 141 AH.
In that same year there also died Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī and Saʿd ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, the brother of Yaḥyā ibn