And Ibn Ḥibbān said, “He had an excellent command of review; he collected and authored works, and he served as Wakīʿ’s mustamli.”
Mūsā ibn Hārūn and others stated: “He died in Balkh, in Muḥarram of the year 244 AH.”
Al-Baghawī and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Simsār recorded the same year and even fixed the exact day.
Al-Qabbānī transmitted from al-Bukhārī that he died in 245 AH.
As for:
41 – Muḥammad ibn Abān ibn ʿImrān ibn Ziyād al-Sulamī,
Abū al-Ḥasan—also Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Sulamī, and some say al-Qurashī—of Wāsiṭ, the miller, the ḥāfiẓ, one of the last surviving reliable transmitters with a musnad.
He narrated from: his father; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim; Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān; Abān ibn Yazīd; Ḥammād ibn Salamah; Abū Shaybah al-ʿAbsī; al-Ḥakam ibn Faṣīl al-Wāsiṭī; al-Rabīʿ ibn Muslim; ʿUmārah ibn Zādān; Qazaʿah ibn Suwayd al-Bāhilī; Abū Hilāl al-Rāsibī; Mahdī ibn Maymūn; Abū ʿAwanah; Sallām ibn Miskīn—and many others besides them.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Baqī ibn Makhlad, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī, Aslam ibn Sahl Bahshal, Mūsā ibn Isḥāq al-Anṣārī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Muṭayyan, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Mattawayh al-Wāsiṭī, Abū ʿAwanah, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bāghandī, and Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī.