Among those who narrated from him were: Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī—the father of Tammām—Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, and others.
Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī said: His roots go back to Bayt Lehya, where he taught, after which he moved to Mashqara (1), a village on the slopes of Mount Lebanon. There he became its preacher. He made frequent visits to Damascus, and it was in Damascus that he died in 319 AH.
Ibn Zabr reports that Ibn Ṭalāb fell from his mount and died instantly.
I (the author) add: Their grandfather was Ṭalāb ibn Kathīr.
In that same year passed away: Sufyān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Manda; al-Faḍl ibn al-Khaṣīb ibn Naṣr; the father of Abū al-Shaykh; al-Muʾammal ibn al-Ḥasan al-Māsarjusī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-ʿAnazī—the companion of ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr—ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Maʿdān al-Fasawī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Munkadirī; Abū ʿUbayd ibn Ḥarbawayh, the judge; and Aslam ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Andalusī.
287 – Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān, Abū ʿUthmān al-Ḥalabī *
The muhaddith, reliable, ascetic, exemplar: Abū ʿUthmān al-Ḥalabī, resident of Damascus.