And al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym said, “He was known by the nickname ʿAbbāsawayh, and he was a hadith master.” (1)
I add: he served for a period as judge in Hamadhān, and he also taught hadith in Isfahān.
Ibn Makhlad said: “He passed away in 258 AH.”
It is reported that there is a slight softness in his narration that causes no real harm. Marrār ibn Ḥammūyah criticized his audition from Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, yet the man is reliable.
32 – Ibn Ḥabīb, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥabīb ibn Sulaymān al-Sulamī *
The imām, the erudite scholar, the jurist of al-Andalus—Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥabīb ibn Sulaymān ibn Hārūn (2) ibn Jāhima, descendant of the Companion ʿAbbās ibn Mirdās al-Sulamī, al-ʿAbbāsī, al-Andalusī, al-Qurṭubī, the Mālikī—one of the notable authorities.
He was born during the lifetime of Imām Mālik, sometime after 170 AH.
He studied under al-Ghāzī ibn Qays, Ziyād Shabaṭūn, and Ṣaʿṣaʿah ibn Salām.
(1) Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 5/134, records that Ibn Hibban classed him among al-thiqat (reliable transmitters) but added that he occasionally made mistakes; Maslama ibn Qasim considered his hadith weak, whereas al-Samʿani judged him “trustworthy and dependable.” ʿAbd Allah ibn Ishaq al-Musawhi, the hafiz of Isfahan, relates: “I travelled to Basra in search of hadith, and they said to me, ‘You already have al-ʿAbbas ibn Yazid al-Bahrani among you—why come to us?’” Main biographical sources: Matmah al-Anfus, 36-37; Tabaqat al-Nuhat wa-l-Lughawiyyin, 176-177; Tarikh ʿUlamaʾ al-Andalus, 1/269, 272; Jadhwat al-Muqtabis, 282-283; Tartib al-Mudrak, 3/30, 48; Bughyat al-Multamis, 377; Inbaʾ al-Ruwat, 2/206-207; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 2/537-538; Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 2/652-653; al-ʿIbar, 1/427-428; Mirʾat al-Jinan, 2/122; Tarikh Ibn Kathir, 10/318; Muʿjam al-Buldan, 1/323; al-Dibaj al-Mudhab, 2/8, 15; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 6/390-391; Lisan al-Mizan, 4/59-60; Tabaqat Ibn Qadi Shuhbah, 2/100; Tabaqat al-Huffaz, 233; Tabaqat al-Mufassirin, 347, 350; Nafh al-Tib, 1/46; 2/5, 8; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/90.
(2) Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 6/390, reads “Marwan” instead of “Harun.”