290 – Abū Ṭāhir b. Salama al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad*
The shaykh, the imām, the ḥadith scholar, the foremost teacher of Hamadhān: Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Salama al-Kaʿbī, al-Hamadhānī.
He was born in 340 AH.
He related ḥadith from al-Faḍl b. al-Faḍl al-Kindī, Abū Bakr b. al-Sunnī, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAdī, Abū Baḥr al-Barbahārī, Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī, and Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥamdān.
He undertook extensive journeys and possessed commendable learning.
Among those who narrated from him are: Abū al-Qāsim b. Manda, Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣūfī, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad b. Ṭāhir al-Qūmisānī, Thābit b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣāʾigh, Abū Ṭālib b. Hushaym al-Ṣayrafī, and many others whom Shīrawayh al-Daylamī met. Shīrawayh said: “He was truthful, with sound audition, and travelled widely.”
I heard Thābit b. Ḥusayn b. Shurāʿah say, when Abū Ṭāhir passed away, “The sun of the ḥadith folk has set.”
I asked, “What do you mean?”
He replied, “The shaykh Abū Ṭāhir b. Salama has departed on his way.”
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿda, 416 AH. ﵀
291 – al-Thaʿlabī, Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm**
The imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the erudite scholar, the master of Qurʾānic commentary: Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad b. Muḥammad