203 – Ibn Sukaynah ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baghdādī *
The shaykh, scholar, and hadith transmitter, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of al-Amīn Abū Manṣūr ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn Sukaynah al-Baghdādī, the Sufi.
Born: in the month of Ṣafar (1), in 548 AH.
He studied under Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī, Maḥmūd Fūrjah, Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn al-Turaykī, Yaḥyā ibn Tāj al-Qurrāʾ, and al-Wazīr al-Falakī.
He was also present at the gatherings of Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-ʿUkbarī and Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, Ibn al-Ḥājib, Abū al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Nābulusī, al-Majd ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Khalīlī, Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Wāsiṭī, Ibn al-Zayn, and others.
Ibn al-Najjār declared him reliable. He copied many manuscripts and was a humble man. Fatimah bint Sulayman transmitted (2) to us from him by way of ijāzah.
He died in 627 AH (3).