Among those who narrated from him were: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Abū Kurayb, ʿAbdallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Shākir, and a number of others.

Ibn Numayr said of him, “There is no problem with him.”

I add: He lived on past the year 200 AH—Allah knows best.

18 – Mūsā ibn Dāwūd Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḍabbī * (M, D, N, Q)
The shaykh, the imām, the trustworthy authority, Abū ʿAbdallāh, al-Ḍabbī, the Tarsūsī—originally from Kūfah—known as al-Khulqānī, who settled in Baghdad and later became the judge and leading scholar of Tarsus.

He heard ḥadith from: Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Mubārak ibn Faḍālah, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar, and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Ḥajjāj ibn al-Shāʿir, al-Dhuhli, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Azdi, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Khalaf, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām, and a large number besides.

More than one critic graded him trustworthy, and Muslim adduces his reports as evidence.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿAmmār said, “He was an ascetic, reliable, and a scholar of ḥadith.”

He also served as the judge of al-Maṣṣīṣah ⦗1⦘.