Al-Dāraquṭnī deemed him reliable.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū Bakr al-Jiʿābī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Muḥammad ibn al-Shikhkhīr, Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyūyah, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq, and others.
He died in 311 AH.
245 – ʿAbdūs ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbbād, Abū Muḥammad al-Thaqafī*
The Imām, ḥadith master, and unrivalled authority, Abū Muḥammad al-Thaqafī, the Hamadhānī.
His personal name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; he was the chief traditionist of Hamadhān.
He narrated from Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Asadī, Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, Ziyād ibn Ayyūb, Ḥumayd ibn al-Rabīʿ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar Rusta, Maḥmūd ibn Khidāsh, al-ʿAbbās ibn Yazīd al-Baḥrānī, and their contemporaries.
Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd al-Asadī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyūyah al-Karjī, al-Qāsim ibn Ḥasan al-Falakī, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Rabīʿ, Jibrīl al-ʿAdl, Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Ghuṭrīf, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, and others.
Shīrawayh al-Daylamī states in his History: “The vast majority of the hadith scholars in our land reported from him. He was trustworthy, precise, and skilful in this discipline.”
Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad, the ḥadith master, said: “I heard my father say, ‘ʿAbdūs was a scale.’”