It is said that he died in 114 AH.
155 – Sallām ibn Miskīn ibn Rabīʿah al-Azdī (al-Bukhārī, Muslim)
The Imām, reliable; Abū Rūḥ al-Azdī, al-Namari, of Basra.
Abū Dāwūd said, “Sallām is only a kunya; his given name is Sulaymān.”
He narrated from al-Ḥasan, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Shikhkhir, ʿAqīl ibn Ṭalḥah, Qatādah, Thābit al-Bunānī, Bishr ibn Ḥarb, Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb, and others.
He was not a prolific transmitter, and in the Two Ṣaḥīḥs he has only one ḥadīth, related from Thābit.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Mahdī, al-Aṣmaʿī, Abū Nuʿaym, Mūsā ibn Dāwūd al-Ḍabbī, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Hudbah ibn Khālid, Shaybān, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, and many others.
Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl said, “He was one of the most devoted worshippers of his time.”
ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal reported: My father was asked about Sallām ibn Miskīn and Sallām ibn Abī Muṭīʿ (1). He replied, “Both are trustworthy, but Sallām ibn Miskīn reports more ḥadīth, whereas Ibn Abī Muṭīʿ is a man of Sunnah.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “Sallām ibn Miskīn is trustworthy and upright.”
Abū Ḥātim said, “His ḥadīth are sound.”
It is said that Sallām died in 64 AH.
Muḥammad ibn Maḥbūb said, “He died in—”