Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qaṭṭān and Abū Dāwūd al-Fāmī also transmitted ḥadith from him. Al-Khalīlī added, “Of those who narrated from him we only met ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ.”
200 – Ibn Zabbān, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Kindī *
He was the long-lived, devout Qur’an reciter Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Zabbān al-Kindī, the blind Damascene, also known as Ibn Abī Hurayrah.
He claimed to have read the Qur’an to Aḥmad ibn Yazīd al-Ḥulwānī, and to have heard ḥadith from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, and Ibrāhīm ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥawrānī.
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zurayq recited to him, and ḥadith was related from him by Ibn Shammʿūn, Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān, Ibn Shāhīn, and a number of others.
At first Tammām and al-ʿAfīf ibn Abī Naṣr also transmitted from him, but both later abandoned narrating on his authority because of his weakness.
He used to say, “I was born in 225 AH.”
ʿAbd al-Ghanī (1) al-Azdī said, “He was not reliable (2).”
He died in 338 AH.