Abu Ḥātim said, “Reliable.” (1)
Ibn Khirāsh, however, stated, “There is a difference of opinion about him.”
I add: He was known by the kunya Abū al-Ḥasan. He died in Basra in the year 228 AH.
Among those who also died that same year were: Abū Naṣr al-Tammār (2); Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī; Ḥubāb ibn Ḥablah—the companion of Mālik; Aḥmad ibn ʿImrān al-Akhnasī; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmānī (3); Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Warkānī; and Musaddad ibn Musarhad (4).
Those who passed away in Ramaḍān of that same year include: Bashshār ibn Mūsā al-Khaffāf (5); Ḥājib ibn al-Walīd in Baghdad; Nuʿaym ibn al-Haytham; ʿUbayd Allāh al-ʿAyshī; Muḥammad ibn Abī Bilāl al-Ashʿarī; Muḥammad ibn ʿImrān ibn Abī Laylā; Isḥāq ibn Bishr al-Kāhilī; Salm ibn Qādim; Ibrāhīm ibn Ziyād Sabalān; Muḥammad ibn Ḥassān al-Samti; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb; Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab, the earnest supplicant and devoted worshipper; and Abū al-Jahm al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Mūsā al-Bāhilī (6).
198 – ʿAlī ibn ʿAththām ibn ʿAlī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kilābī * (m)
The imam, the ḥāfiẓ, the exemplar, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kilābī,