ibn Ghalib ibn Warith ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAṭiyya ibn Murra ibn Kaʿb ibn Hammam ibn Asad ibn Murra ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥanẓala ibn Mālik ibn Zayd Manāt ibn Tamīm—the Tamimī, then the Ḥanẓalī—from Marw, later settled in Nishapur.
I say: He was born in 161 AH.
He heard from Ibn al-Mubārak, but never ventured to report anything from him, for at that time he was still a novice and had not mastered the discipline. In 184 AH he set out on a journey, met the leading authorities, and wrote down ḥadīths from a large number of the Followers of the Followers.
Among those from whom he heard are: al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā al-Sinānī; al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ; Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿAmmi; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Darāwardī; Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar; Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus; Abū Tumayla Yaḥyā ibn Wāḍiḥ; ʿAttāb ibn Bashīr al-Jazarī; Abū Muʿāwiya al-Ḍarīr; Marḥūm ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb; Makhlad ibn Yazīd; Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl; ʿUmar ibn Hārūn al-Balkhī; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar, known as Ghundar; al-Walīd ibn Muslim; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayya; Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ; Baqiyya ibn al-Walīd; Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth; ʿAbd Allah ibn Idrīs; al-Walīd ibn Muslim; Shuʿayb ibn Isḥāq; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Sāmī; al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl; Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl; Yazīd ibn Hārūn; Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān; Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh; ʿUbayda ibn Ḥumayd; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī; ʿAbd al-Razzāq; and many others in Khurāsān, ʿIrāq, the Ḥijāz, Yemen, and Syria.
Those who narrated from him include: Baqiyya ibn al-Walīd and Yaḥyā ibn Ādam—both of whom were his teachers—Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn—his peers—Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī, and Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj in (