He also heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAffān ibn Muslim, al-Ḥumaydī, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Qabīṣah ibn ʿUqbah, Abū Salamah, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, Surayj ibn al-Nuʿmān, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, as well as his own father, his cousin, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Ṣāʿid, Abū Bakr al-Khallāl, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was trustworthy and firmly grounded.” (1)
I (al-Dhahabī) add: He possesses a great many questions transmitted from Aḥmad, and in a number of them he is the sole or unusual source.
Aḥmad ibn al-Munādī related: “Ḥanbal had travelled to Wāsiṭ, and news of his death reached us from there in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 273 AH.” (2)
I say: He was in his eighties. (3)
His father died in 253 AH at the age of ninety-two, (4) after having narrated from Yazīd ibn Hārūn and others.
I have obtained a fascicle of Ḥanbal’s narrations, another fascicle containing the fourth section of ‘al-Fitan’ by Ḥanbal, and the book