Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhari, Muslim, and—through an intermediary—al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasa’i; likewise Yusuf ibn ‘Adi—whose death predates that of Hibban—Abu Zur‘ah al-Razi, Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Warrah, Ja‘far al-Firyabi, al-Hasan ibn Sufyan, ‘Abd Allah ibn Mahmud al-Marwazi, and others.
Yahya ibn Ma‘in said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”
Al-Bukhari stated, “He died in the year 233 AH.”
As for his namesake—Hibban ibn Musa ibn Hibban al-Kala‘i al-Dimashqi, the son of Musa ibn ‘Ubayd Allah al-Kala‘i of Damascus, who narrates from Zakariyya al-Sijzi, nicknamed “the Tailor of the Sunnah” (1)—he passed away in 331 AH.
Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Salam informed us; ‘Abd al-Mu‘izz ibn Muhammad reported to us; Tamim and Zahir likewise told us, saying:
Abu Sa‘d al-Kanjruthi (2) informed us; Abu ‘Amr al-Hiri informed us; al-Hasan ibn Sufyan told us; Hibban ibn Musa narrated to us, from Ibn al-Mubarak; Aflah narrated to us; al-Qasim informed us, from ‘A’ishah, who said:
“We halted at Muzdalifah, and Sawdah asked the Prophet ﷺ for permission to leave before him and before the crowd surged forward, for she was a heavy woman—al-thabtah means heavy—so he granted her leave. She set out ahead of him, while we remained until we departed with the Prophet ﷺ at daybreak.” (3)