Al-Dāraqutnī remarked, “They spoke against him on the score of how he received (his ḥadīth).”
By contrast, Abū Bakr al-Burqānī declared him reliable.
He died in 308 AH in Baghdad.
In that same year there also passed away: Abū Khubayb ibn al-Birtī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sufyān the jurist, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad al-Jandī, Shuʿayb ibn Muḥammad al-Dhāriʿ, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Bidinā, and ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥibbān al-Miṣrī.
162 – Ibn al-Birtī, Abū Khubayb al-ʿAbbās ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad *
The imam and ḥadīth scholar, Abū Khubayb al-ʿAbbās, son of the eminent judge and scholar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Birtī.
He heard (ḥadīth) from: ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narsī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Sawwār ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAnbarī, and a number of others.
Related from him were: Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ṣābir, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, and Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ.
Certain ḥuffāẓ (hadith masters) commended him.
He died in Shawwāl of 308 AH, at the age of eighty-odd years, or perhaps more.
163 – Al-Jandī, Abū Saʿīd al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm **
The Qur’an reciter, ḥadīth scholar, imam—Abū Saʿīd al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm