He studied jurisprudence under Jamāl al-Islām (1) and Abū al-Fatḥ al-Miṣṣīṣī (2).

He also received ḥadīth from al-Amīn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Akfanī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamzah, Ṭāhir ibn Sahl, Yaḥyā ibn Biṭrīq, and others of their rank.

Devoting himself to transmission, he wrote extensively and journeyed in search of knowledge; in Baghdad he heard from Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn al-Bukhārī, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Marzūq al-Zaʿfarānī, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Samarkandī, al-Ḥasan ibn Isḥāq al-Bāqarḥī, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ṭabarī, and a number of others.

Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣaṣrā, al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, Ibn al-Akhdar, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī, Ibn Khalīl, Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Tāj al-Qurṭubī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Khushūʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl, al-ʿImād ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, and many others.

Janzah is one of the towns of Arrān, a small region situated between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

He was counted among the leading legal witnesses and foremost ḥadīth scholars.

He died on the last day of Jumada I in 588 AH, at the age of ninety years and two months. May Allah have mercy on him.

121 – Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī *

The venerable, long-lived shaykh and prominent transmitter, Abū Manṣūr ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn