Al-Khalīlī said: “He is reliable, well-versed in this discipline.”

When Ibn Abī Ḥātim was asked about him, he replied: “He is reliable and worthy of reliance.”

Al-Khalīlī also said: “I met about ten of his pupils.”

He authored a number of fine works.

Al-Ḥākim remarked: “He was known as Kardawsh,” while Abū al-Naḍr al-Fāmī said: “He was known as Mukardash.”

I say: Those who narrated from him include Abū Sahl al-Suʿlūkī and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs.

According to al-Ḥākim, he passed away in Ṭūs in 312 AH, whereas al-Khalīlī maintained that he died on the way to a military expedition in 308 AH.

183 – al-Walīd ibn Abān ibn Būnah, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣbahānī*

The ḥāfiẓ, master hadith scholar, and eminent authority Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣbahānī, author of the Musnad al-Kabīr and the Tafsīr.

He transmitted hadith from Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-ʿAṭāridī, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Usayd ibn ʿĀṣim, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbdak al-Qazwīnī, and their contemporaries.

Among those who reported from him were Abū Shaykh, al-Ṭabarānī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Makhlad,