He also authored the book al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (The Grand Compendium), the book al-ʿArḍ (The Exposition), the book al-Masāʾil al-ʿAskarīyah (1) (Military Questions), and other works. He died in 321 AH, and he had a number of students.

33 – Ibn ʿAttāb, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī

The ḥadith scholar, master of precision, and reliable authority, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAttāb ibn Aḥmad ibn Kathīr—originally from Basra and later of Damascus, known as Ibn al-Zifti.

He heard ḥadith from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥammād Zughbah, Hārūn ibn Saʿīd al-Aylī, Duḥaym, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, and a number of others.

Those who narrated from him include ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr al-Ḥarīrī, Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Shāfiʿ ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāʾīnī, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, and others. Among the scholars who remained in Damascus, he possessed the loftiest chains of transmission.

He was born in 224 AH.

Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥāfiẓ said, “We found him to be firmly established.” (2)

I (the author) say: He owned a farm opposite the musallā—the open-air prayer ground—(3).

He passed away in Rajab 320 AH.