398 — And Ubayd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad informed us; he said: Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yazid al-Riyahi informed us; he said: My father narrated to us; he said: Musa ibn Dawud al-Dabbi narrated to us, from Ma‘bad Abu Abd al-Rahman. [Chain shift]

399 — And Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Khidr al-Muqri’ informed us; he said: Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Yunus informed us; he said: Abd Allah ibn Ahmad narrated to us; he said: My father narrated to us; he said: Musa narrated to us; he said: Ma‘bad Abu Abd al-Rahman narrated to us, from Mu‘awiyah ibn Ammar al-Duhni, who said: I said to Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, “They ask us whether the Quran is created.” He replied, “It is neither a creator nor created; rather, it is the speech of Allah Most High.”

Abu Abd al-Rahman Abd Allah ibn Ahmad said: My father Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, “I saw this Ma‘bad, and there was nothing objectionable about him.” My father spoke well of him and said, “He used to issue legal opinions according to the legal views of Ibn Abi Layla.”