Al-Samʿānī said, “There was a streak of coarseness in his character, and we could only take his narrations with great effort. He was under suspicion, openly known for Shiʿism.”
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Nāṣir remarked, “I would be on my way to the Friday prayer when the time was almost in, and I would find Ibn al-Sallāl in his shop, carefree, with no thought of the prayer at all.”
I say: Those who narrated from him were al-Samʿānī, ʿUmar ibn Ṭabrazad, Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī, Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Nafīs ibn Wahbān, and—by written authorization—Abū Manṣūr ibn ʿUfaijjah and Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Ṣaṣrā.
He lived ninety-four years.
He died in Jumada I, 541 AH.
In that same year there also died: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ikhwah (1), the agent in Baghdad; Abū al-Barakāt Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Saʿd, Shaykh al-Shuyūkh (2); Abū Jaʿfar Ḥanbal ibn ʿAlī al-Bukhārī (3); the atabeg Zangī ibn Āq Sunqur (4); the ḥadith scholar Saʿd al-Khayr ibn Muḥammad al-Balansī (5); Ẓāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Masāmīrī (6); Abū Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Khayyāṭ (7); Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Ghālib ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-Muḥāribī, author of the Tafsīr (8); Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Ṭirād al-Zaynabī (9); and Abū al-Fath Muḥammad ibn