He was the most senior of Muslim’s teachers; Muslim heard from him during the pilgrimage season, in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 220 AH, yet he did not narrate many traditions from him.

Al-Qaʿnabī passed away in Muḥarram of the year 221 AH.

Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Lubābah al-Andalusī said, “Mālik ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī narrated to us; al-Qaʿnabī narrated to us, saying:

‘I entered upon Mālik and found him in tears, so I asked, “Abū ʿAbd Allāh, what is making you weep?”

He replied, “O son of Qaʿnab! It is over my own failings. Would that I had been flogged once with a whip for every word I spoke concerning this matter, and that I had not gone to the excesses I have in these opinions and questions. I had ample scope in what others before me had already set forth.”’”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, together with a group of scholars, informed us with permission, saying:

ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad told us; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥuṣayn told us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad told us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī told us; Muʿādh ibn al-Mathannā narrated to us; al-Qaʿnabī narrated to us; Aflah ibn Ḥumayd, on the authority of al-Qāsim, on the authority of ʿĀʾishah, said:

“I applied perfume to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for his state of consecration when he entered iḥrām, and again for his release when he exited it, before he circumambulated the House.”

This is a ḥasan report with an elevated chain.

Muslim (1) included it through al-Qaʿnabī, and it is among the highest isnāds in his Ṣaḥīḥ.