Then, in 478 AH, he engaged the Sultan of Rūm, Sulaymān ibn Qutulmish, in open battle outside Antioch; Muslim was killed there, being in his early forties (1). Others said that a servant strangled him in the bathhouse. They installed his brother Ibrāhīm (2) in his place, and his life—full of long campaigns and striking events—has its own tale.

247 – Al-Sarrām, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad *
The shaykh, exemplar, devotee, and hadith transmitter, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Sarrām.

He studied the Musnad of Abū ʿAwānah (3) with Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan, and also received hadith from Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, and a number of others.

Those who narrated from him include Wajīh al-Shahhāmī, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, Muḥammad ibn Jāmiʿ al-Ṣawwāf, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Farāwī, and others.

His father was one of the leading figures of the town.

He died in Shaʿbān 479 AH, in his nineties. He would recite the entire Qur’an in two rakʿahs and was constant in worship and recitation—may Allah have mercy on him.

In that same year there also passed away Shaykh al-Shuyūkh Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dūst