Bakkār ibn Qutaybah said, “I have never met a grammarian who so resembled the jurists except Ḥabbān ibn Hilāl and al-Māzinī.”
I add: Ḥabbān was the last man to relate ḥadith from Maʿmar.
He was born sometime around 130 AH.
63 – Ṭalq ibn Ghannām ibn Ṭalq ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Nakhaʿī * (Kh, 4)
The muhaddith and ḥāfiẓ, cousin of the judge Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth (1) al-Nakhaʿī al-Kūfī, and his deputy on the bench; he also served as Sharīk the judge’s clerk in charge of issuing rulings.
He received ḥadith from Zāʾidah, Shaybān, al-Masʿūdī, Mālik ibn Mighwal—his senior-most teacher—Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allah, and others.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Bukhārī, the authors of the Sunan (through an intermediary), Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Bakr and ʿUthmān the sons of Abī Shaybah, Abū Kurayb, Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarassūsī, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Maṣṣīṣī, and many more.
Ibn Saʿd said, “Reliable and truthful; he died in Rajab of the year 211 AH.” (2)
Abū Dāwūd said, “His ḥadith are acceptable.” (3)