the forerunners!’ Salm al-Khawwās rose, and after him Ibrāhīm ibn Adham.

Aḥmad ibn Thaʿlabah said, “I heard Salm al-Khawwās say: ‘I said to my soul, “O soul, recite the Qur’an as though you were hearing it from Allah at the very moment He spoke it,” and its sweetness immediately manifested.’”

Salm lived on until sometime after the year 213 AH.

Abū Ḥātim said, “I met him; he was a Murji’ī, and his hadith are not to be recorded.” (1)

I (the author) add: Those who related from him include Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī and Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā.

He later settled in Ramla.

25 – Ṣāliḥ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Taymī * (T, Q)

A descendant of Isḥāq ibn Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Taymī, known as al-Ṭalḥī, from Kūfa.

He is not considered an authority.

He transmitted hadith from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj, and his uncle Muʿāwiyah ibn Isḥāq.

Those who narrated from him include Qutaybah, Minjāb ibn al-Ḥārith, Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī, and others.

Ibn Maʿīn said, “His hadith are not to be written.”