and assumed authority over it on behalf of the Qarmatian, appointing his brother as deputy. He then advanced against al-Ḥasan the Qarmatian and placed him under arrest, but al-Ḥasan managed to escape and fled to a fortress he owned on the Euphrates. Afterwards al-Muʿizz coaxed him, hoping to use him against the Qarmatian; yet when he reached Baalbek he learned that the Qarmatian had already been routed. He seized Damascus in 363 AH, promoted al-Muʿizz’s cause there for two months, and when the Kutami arrived in Damascus civil strife erupted between them.

193 – Ibn Sālim Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baṣrī *
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad, son of Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sālim al-Baṣrī, was an ascetic, the leading shaykh of the Salimiyya Sufis, and the son of their founding master.

He lived to a great age. His father had been among the disciples of Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tustarī. While still a youth he himself met Sahl and committed his sayings to memory.

Abū Saʿīd al-Naqqāsh reached him, and the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym also saw him, though he did not record anything from him.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Ṭālib, author of al-Qūt; Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān al-Rāzī; Abū Muslim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAwf al-Burjī al-Iṣbahānī; Abū Naṣr ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭūsī; Manṣūr ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ṣūfī; and others.

Al-Sulamī said in his History of the Sufis: “Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sālim, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baṣrī, the son of Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Sālim, transmitted the words of Sahl and is among…"