ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥarrānī was narrated from by a number of people besides those already mentioned, including Abū Zurʿah—who narrated only from a trustworthy narrator—and Abū Ḥātim, who said: “Truthful.” Ibn Ḥibbān included him in al-Thiqāt (The Trustworthy Narrators) (9/227) and said: “Sound in his hadith.” He also included several of his hadiths in his Ṣaḥīḥ; see al-Taysīr.

As for Abū ʿAqīl Anas ibn Salm al-Khawlānī, he was one of the shaykhs who narrated extensively. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir devoted a biography to him in Tārīkh Dimashq (History of Damascus) (3/140), where he mentioned that, in Damascus in the year 289 AH, he narrated from a group of shaykhs whom he named, including Hishām ibn ʿAmmār; their number was close to twenty shaykhs. More than ten shaykhs narrated from him, among them al-Ṭabarānī and Ibn ʿAdī. He mentioned no criticism or accreditation concerning him, but the fact that these scholars narrated from him constitutes an accreditation of him—especially since al-Ṭabarānī narrated from him frequently. In his book al-Duʿāʾ (Supplication) alone, he narrated nine hadiths from him (see the first volume of al-Duʿāʾ, edited by Dr. Muḥammad Saʿīd al-Bukhārī). In al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (1/171/3188–3190), he narrated three hadiths from him, one of which also appears in al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr (no. 689—al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr).

As for his colleague, Aḥmad ibn Khālid ibn Masraḥ, al-Dāraquṭnī said of him, as cited in al-Lisān: “He is of no account.” Al-Ṭabarānī also recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr solely through his route (2/107/