some say Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Asadī, the Damascene, known as al-Ṭāṭarī.
Al-Ṭāṭarī is the same as al-Khāmī and al-Baṭāʾinī. Al-Ṭabarānī said, “Anyone in Damascus who sold thiyāb al-karābīs (karābīs cloth) was called al-Ṭāṭarī.”
Marwān said, “I was born in 147 AH, the Year of the Comets.” (1)
He transmitted ḥadith from: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muʿāwiyah ibn Sallām, Mālik, al-Layth, Bakr ibn Muḍar, Ibn Luhayʿah, al-Haytham ibn Ḥumayd, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Zabr, ʿUthmān ibn Ḥiṣn ibn ʿIlāq, al-Hiql ibn Ziyād, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Murrī, Rishdīn ibn Saʿd, Ṣakhr ibn Jandal al-Bayrūtī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥawshab, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include: Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd—despite his seniority—Maḥmūd ibn Khālid, Hishām ibn Khālid al-Azraq, Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā, Ibn Dhakwān, Salamah ibn Shabīb, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dārimī, ʿAbbās al-Turqufī (2), Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ibn Bakkār, Aḥmad ibn Nāṣiḥ al-Maṣṣīṣī, Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, his son Ibrāhīm ibn Marwān, and a great many others.
His reliability was affirmed by Abū Ḥātim and Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazara. (3)