As for Salm ibn Junādah, he maintained that the death occurred in the year 95 AH.
Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā and Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās said, “He died in 96 AH,” yet the first date is the correct one.
- Marwān ibn Shujāʿ al-Umawī, their client (Kh, D, T, Q)
The scholar and hadith transmitter, Abū ʿAmr al-Umawī —their freedman—al-Jazarī, al-Ḥarrānī.
He taught in Baghdad, narrating from Khuṣayf—of whose reports he transmitted a great deal—and from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Mālik al-Jazarī, Sālim al-Afṭas, and others.
Those who narrated from him include: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Surayj ibn Yūnus, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Ziyād ibn Ayyūb, and others.
Aḥmad said, “There is no harm in him.”
Others said, “He is truthful.”
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is not an authority.”
Ibn Ḥibbān said, “He narrates inverted reports from reliable transmitters.”
I (the author) say: his ḥadith are at the level of ḥasan (fair).
He died in 184 AH.
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