Likewise, in another hadith recorded by al-Ṭabarānī (791), he is named after both his father and grandfather—as Aḥmad ibn ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAnbasah al-ʿĀbādānī—through the same al-Ḥaḍramī.

A number of scholars narrated from him, including Ibn Mājah. Al-Mizzī did not cite anyone who declared him reliable, but al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿAsqalānī added:

“I say: Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in al-Thiqāt.”

When the commentator on al-Mizzī’s work attributed this statement to al-Thiqāt, he did not give the volume and page number, as is customary today, because the name occurs there in an inverted form (8/30), as follows:

“Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAnbasah, Abū ʿĀṣim al-ʿĀbādānī ... ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qaḥṭabah al-Ṣāliḥānī narrated to us from him.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb:

“Truthful.”

I say: On this basis, the corroborating report is strong. Yet it remains to determine the status of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Thaʿlabah. It appears that Ibn Abī Ḥātim did not know him, nor did his father, for he said:

“ʿAbd Allāh ibn Thaʿlabah, who was Abū Umāmah al-Ḥārithī.”

Earlier, he had said:

“Thaʿlabah, the father of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Thaʿlabah, said: ‘I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say it: Whoever swears an oath ...’ ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd narrated ...”

He then gave the previously cited chain of transmission, adding nothing further.

It also appears that in this narration he was attributed to his grandfather, for in another report recorded by al-Ṭabarānī (790), through a different chain via Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, it is stated that ʿAbd Allāh ibn