Al-Khaṭīb declared him trustworthy and noted: “He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, in the year 372 AH.”
Ibn Abī ʿUmar and others granted us permission to transmit and said:
“ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad told us; Hibatu ʾllāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥarīrī told us; Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī told us in 445 AH; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bukhayt told us; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿUmarī narrated to us; Abū Kurayb narrated to us; Ibn Idrīs narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Nāfiʿ:
from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Prophet ﷺ flogged and banished (the offender), that Abū Bakr flogged and banished, and that ʿUmar also flogged and banished.”
243 – Ibn Mihrān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī *
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, firmly reliable authority, exemplar, and Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Muslim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mihrān ibn Salamah al-Baghdādī.
He heard from: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghandī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī; Ibn Abī Dāwūd; Abū ʿUrūbah al-Ḥarrānī; Abū Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā; Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl; and many other scholars in Iraq, Syria, al-Jazīrah, Khurāsān, and Transoxiana. He resided in Samarkand for roughly thirty years.
Those who narrated from him include: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kātib; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥadhdhāʾ al-Muqriʾ; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī; and others.
He was among those who distinguished themselves.