It was said that Hārūn al-Rashīd had him imprisoned because he stated, “If I wished, I could strike al-Rashīd with a hundred thousand swords.”

He was also reported to have said, “It would not please me to meet Allah bearing the deeds of those who have gone before while still claiming that faith is word and deed.” 1

Abū Muʿāwiyah recounted, “Al-Rashīd summoned me to relate hadith to him, so I said, ‘Salm—grant him to me.’ I sensed his anger and he remarked, ‘He is not of your view regarding irjāʾ.’ I continued to speak with him until he eased the fetters on Salm.” 2

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “I saw Salm come to Abū Muʿāwiyah—his friend. He was a righteous servant, but I did not record anything from him, for he did not have a reliable memory.”

Al-Nasāʾī said, “Weak.”

Ibn Maʿīn said, “He is nothing.”

Salm died in 194 AH.

One of his higher-level chains reached me in the second section of Saʿdān’s narrations. 3

104 – al-Ghāzī ibn Qays, Abū Muḥammad al-Andalusī*—
An eminent imām, the leading shaykh of al-Andalus, Abū Muḥammad al-Andalusī, the Qur’an reciter.