7 – Aḥmad b. Hilāl, al-ʿAbartā’ī, Abū Jaʿfar. I regard halting (to be appropriate) in regards to his ḥadīth, except for what he narrates from al-Ḥasan b. Maḥbūb from the book al-Mashīkha and Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr from his Nawādir. The venerable of the Aṣḥāb al-Ḥadīth have heard these two books and relied upon what is in them. He was born in the year 180, and died in the year 267.