Ibn ʿAydhūn passed away at Yābura in 527 AH.
349 – ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamza ibn al-Khiḍr ibn al-ʿAbbās
The trustworthy shaykh and transmitter, Abū Muḥammad al-Sulamī, a Damascene, a blacksmith by trade, and the official representative of the Qur’an reciters.
He received hadith from Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥinnāʾī, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Azdī, ʿAbd al-Dāʾim ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Dārānī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Kattānī, and others.
In Baghdad, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima granted him an authorisation, and in Wāsiṭ he received another from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Harastānī, al-Salafī, Ibn ʿAsākir (1), Ismāʿīl al-Janzawī (2), ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Khirqī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Khushūʿī, and others; the last to transmit from him was the aforementioned Ibn al-Harastānī.
The ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir said: “He was a reliable shaykh, discreet and easy-going; I read a great deal to him.”
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿda of 526 AH.