Among those who narrated ḥadith from him were Ibn al-Halawāniyyah, al-ʿImād ibn al-Bālisī, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Maqdisī, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Shāṭibī, and others.
He was devout, intelligent, and ever-alert; he travelled in search of knowledge, bore hardship for it, and eventually endowed his library.
He died in Shawwāl (1), 652 AH.

198 – Ibn Taymiyyah, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Khiḍr al-Ḥarrānī
The shaykh, imam, and erudite scholar; the jurist of his age, shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs, Majd al-Dīn, Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Khiḍr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥarrānī, universally known as Ibn Taymiyyah.
He was born around 590 AH.
He studied jurisprudence under his uncle Fakhr al-Dīn the preacher, and while still a youth travelled to Baghdad with his cousin al-Sayf, where he heard ḥadith from Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukaynah, from Ibn Tabarzadh Yūsuf ibn Kāmil, from Ḍiyāʾ ibn al-Khurayf, and from several others.
In Ḥarrān he heard from Ḥanbal al-Mukabbir and ʿAbd al-Qādir the ḥadith-master.
He recited the ten canonical readings to Shaykh ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Sulṭān.
Among those who transmitted from him were his son Shihāb al-Dīn, al-Dimyāṭī, Amīn al-Dīn Ibn Shuqayr, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Manṣūr the muʾadhdhin, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kanjī, Shaykh Muḥammad ibn al-Qazzāz, Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Zibāṭar, the preacher Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-Kharrāṭ, and many others.