and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shubrūmah, Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Muḥammad ibn al-Sāʾib al-Kalbī, Misʿar ibn Kidām, and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Ibn Numayr, Abū Khaythamah, Muʾammal ibn Yihāb, al-Ramādī, Abū Bakr al-Ṣāghānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj al-Azraq, Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, and others.

He was declared trustworthy by Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, ʿAlī (ibn al-Madīnī), Aḥmad, al-ʿIjlī, Abū Dāwūd, and a number of additional critics.

Abū Ḥātim said: “He was a collector of historical reports; his ḥadith are written down, but they are not used as proof.” (1)

Yaʿqūb al-Sadūsī remarked: “Trustworthy, sound in ḥadith, knowledgeable in Arabic, poetry, and the chronicles of people; he was the maternal nephew of Ibrāhīm ibn Adham, the ascetic.”

Al-Sadūsī also reported that he died in Kūfa, three days into Shawwāl of the year 207 AH. (2) Muṭayyan recorded the same date, whereas Ibn Qāniʿ—either he or the copyist was mistaken—said it was 209 AH. (3)

Ibn Kunāsah wrote Kitāb al-Anwāʾ (The Celestial Phases), Kitāb Maʿānī al-Shiʿr (The Meanings of Poetry), and Kitāb Sariqāt al-Kutub mina al-Qurʾān (Passages Stolen from the Qurʾan). (4)

Concerning his son Yaḥyā he composed the line:
“I named him Yaḥyā so that he might live, yet there was no way
for him to elude the decree of the Most Merciful.”