He heard ḥadith from his father, Muʾammal ibn Ihāb (1), Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, and several others.

Transmitters on his authority include Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Malāṭī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Bardhaʿī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Qaṭṭān, Aḥmad ibn Muzāḥim al-Ṣūrī, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ, and others.

Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir (2) declared him trustworthy, and Ibn al-Dhahabī, in his History, recorded his death as occurring “in the year twenty-odd and three hundred,” i.e., sometime in the 320s AH.

138 – al-Dabbāj, Abū al-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl ibn Ḥabīb *
A muhaddith, ḥāfiẓ, and scholar, Abū al-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl ibn Ḥabīb al-Samarī, better known as al-Dabbāj (3).

He travelled widely in search of knowledge and narrated from Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, and others of their generation.

Those who related from him include Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shaybānī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Simsār, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, Ibn Jumayʿ al-Ṣaydāwī, and several more.

Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī said, “He is a shaykh and ḥāfiẓ; I wrote ḥadith from him in Damascus.”