Ibn al-Kalbī died—according to the soundest view—in the year 204 AH. Others say he passed away shortly after that; I have discussed him in Mizān al-Iʿtidāl. A third opinion holds that he died in 206 AH.
4 – Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Usayd ibn Jābir al-Ṭāʾī, the chronicler and erudite scholar, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭāʾī, the Kufan historian.
He transmitted from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Mujālid, Ibn Abī Laylā, Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn Saʿd, Abū al-Jahm al-Bāhilī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr al-Anṣārī, Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Abū ʿAṣīdah, and several more.
He is of the same stripe as al-Wāqidī and seldom related fully-supported musnad reports.
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said, “In my estimation he is more reliable than al-Wāqidī.” (1)
ʿAbbās al-Dūrī related: “One of our companions told us, ‘The slave-girl said…’”