(*) A large number of biographers have dealt with him; the following list is illustrative, not exhaustive: al-Samani, entry “al-Salafi,” al-Ansab; the supplement to Tarikh Baghdad, as shown by Ibn Manzur’s Intikhab, fol. 99; Ibn ‘Asakir, Tarikh Dimashq (al-Tahdhib, 1/449); Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 11/191, and al-Lubab, 1/550; Ibn Nuqtah, al-Taqyid, fol. 40, and the “al-Salafi” entry of Ikmal al-Ikmal; Ibn al-Dubaythi, Tarikh, fol. 185 (Shahid ‘Ali ms.); Ibn al-Najjar, al-Tarikh al-Mujaddad, as cited in al-Mustafad of al-Dumyati, fol. 21; Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Mirah, 8/362; al-Nawawi, Tabaqat al-Shafi‘iyyah, fol. 42; Abu Shamah, al-Rawdatayn; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, 1/150; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 61 (Istanbul, Ahmad III 2917/14), al-Mukhtasar al-Muhtaj ilayh min Tarikh Ibn al-Dubaythi, 1/206, al-‘Ibar, 4/227, al-Tadhkira, 4/1298, al-Mizan, 1/155, Ahl al-Mi’ah, p. 134; al-Safadi, al-Wafi, 7/351; al-Subki, Tabaqat, 6/32; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah, 12/307; Ibn Hajar, al-Lisan, 1/299; al-Tabsir, 2/738; al-‘Ayni, ‘Uqd al-Juman, 16/fol. 630; and others. His own works—Mu‘jam Shuyukh Baghdad and Mu‘jam al-Safar—offer detailed information on his life and scholarly activity because they list his teachers. See also Bashshar ‘Awwad’s note on al-Dhahabi’s Ahl al-Mi’ah, p. 134, and his article critiquing the printed Mu‘jam al-Safar in the journal al-Mawrid, vol. 8, no. 1 (Baghdad, 1979).