He also received hadith from Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Rayyān, Ibn Rāhawayh, and Abū Maʿmar al-Hudhalī.
He kept company with Abū Turāb (1) and with Abū Ḥafṣ al-Naysābūrī (2), and he was counted among the abdāl, the saintly “substitutes.”
Those who narrated from him include his own son, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Ḥāmid al-Aʿmashī (3), as well as Makkī ibn ʿAbdān, Abū Jaʿfar ibn Ḥamdān, and many others.
Among his maxims he said, “No one loses composure in the face of affliction except one who suspects his Lord.” (4)
Asked about malāmah, he replied, “It is to fear as the Qadariyyah fear and to hope as the Murjiʾah hope.”
Al-Sulamī gathered a booklet of Ḥamdūn’s anecdotes, recording that he died in the year seventy-one (271 AH) and that he was the shaykh of the ascetic ʿAbd Allāh ibn Munāzil (5).

38 – Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq ibn Ḥanbal ibn Hilāl ibn Asad al-Shaybānī *
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, muḥaddith, reliable narrator, and author Abū ʿAlī al-Shaybānī, the cousin and disciple of Imām Aḥmad.
He was born sometime before the year 200 AH.