Abū Muḥammad al-Ahwāzī, al-Jawāliqī—ʿAbdān, the author of numerous compilations.
He heard (hadith) from Muḥammad b. Bakkār b. al-Rayyān, Shaybān b. Farrūkh, Ṭālūt b. ʿAbdān, Hishām b. ʿAmmār al-Sulamī, Sahl b. ʿUthmān, Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah, Abū Kāmil al-Jahdarī, Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ, ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah, Zayd b. al-Ḥarīsh, Masrūq b. al-Marzubān, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, ʿUbayd b. Yaʿīsh, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Baḥshal, Ḥumayd b. Masʿadah, Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd b. Ḥisāb, Abū al-Ṭāhir b. al-Sarraḥ, Muḥammad b. Muṣaffā, Ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī, ʿĪsā b. Zughbah, Abū Kurayb, Wahb b. Bayān, Bandār, and many others besides them in the Hijaz, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq. He was one of the foremost imams in this field.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Qāniʿ, al-Ṭabarānī, Ḥamzah al-Kinānī, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Bakr b. al-Muqriʾ, Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥamdān, Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Mīkāl, and others.
The ḥuffāẓ travelled to him in ʿAskar Mukram, which lies close to Basra.
Al-Ḥākim said: I heard Abū ʿAlī the ḥadith master say, “I have seen four of the imams of hadith: Ibrāhīm b. Abī Ṭālib—meaning the companion of Muslim—, Ibn Khuzaymah in Nīshāpūr, al-Nasāʾī in Egypt, and ʿAbdān in Ahwāz.”
He went on, “As for ʿAbdān, he had memorised one hundred thousand hadiths; I have never seen among the shaykhs anyone with a stronger memory than he!”
Ḥamzah b. Muḥammad al-Kinānī said: I heard ʿAbdān say, “I entered Basra eighteen times in quest of the hadith of Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, and I gathered everything the hadith scholars gather—that is, the transmissions of the senior authorities—except for the hadith of Mālik, for it had not…"