He journeyed about and devoted himself wholeheartedly to this discipline.
He received ḥadith from Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī, Abū Ghassān al-Nahdī, Khālid ibn Makhlad, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar al-Raqqī, and several others.
He also consulted Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn regarding the standing of narrators.
Al-Nasāʾī said of him, “There is no harm in him.”
I add: al-Nasāʾī, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī, Ibn Jawṣā, Abū ʿAwānah, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Marwān al-Dimashqī, and many others transmitted from him.
Al-Ṭaḥāwī and others reported that he died in Damascus in 263 AH.
I further note that he reached old age, passing well beyond seventy.

15 – Ibn ʿAffān, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Kūfī * (D, Q ⦗1⦘)
A muhaddith, reliable authority, and master narrator: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān al-ʿĀmirī, al-Kūfī, the brother of Muḥammad.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr, Abū Yaḥyā ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmanī, Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad, Abū Usāmah, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, and a number of others.
He never undertook journeys in search of ḥadith.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Mājah in his Sunan and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim,