152 – Al-Sulamī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Khālid ibn Sālim ibn Zāwiyah ibn Saʿīd ibn Qabīṣah ibn Sarraq al-Azdī, al-Sulamī by maternal descent; the imam, ḥāfiẓ, and hadith scholar, Shaykh of Khurāsān and senior figure of the Sufis, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Naysābūrī the Sufi, a prolific author.
The hadith authority Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khassāb devoted an independent fascicle to his biography, in which he wrote:
“He was born on the tenth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah in 325 AH, six days after the death of Makkī ibn ʿAbdān. In 333 AH he copied, in his own hand, traditions from Abū Bakr al-Ṣibghī, al-Aṣam, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Akhram. He also heard a great deal from his maternal grandfather Ismāʿīl (1) ibn Nujayd and from many others.
He made a journey—meaning to Iraq—and began writing in the early three-fifties (c. 353 AH). In the sciences of the Sufis (2) he produced seven hundred fascicles, and in Prophetic hadith—topical collections, compilations from various shaykhs, and the like—three hundred fascicles. His works enjoyed wide acceptance.”