He died in 226 AH, and Ibn Mājah recorded only one ḥadith from him.
218 – Muḥammad ibn Salām ibn al-Faraj al-Sulamī, their mawla* (Kh)
An imam, ḥāfiẓ, and distinguished critic: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Sulamī—their mawla (client), originally from Bukhārā, also called al-Bīkandī.
He saw Mālik ibn Anas, though he never managed to hear ḥadith directly from him.
Among those from whom he narrated are Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Salām ibn Sulaym, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā Ghunjār, Zāʾidah ibn Abī al-Ruqād, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhārī, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Wāṣil, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Bujayr, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḍuʾ, Ḥumayd ibn al-Naḍr, Tufayl ibn Zayd al-Nasafī, as well as numerous scholars from Transoxiana.
He was one of the great repositories of knowledge and a foremost authority on transmitted reports.
Aḥmad ibn al-Haytham al-Shāshī recounted: Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā said to me, “In Khurāsān there are two treasures: one with Muḥammad ibn Salām al-Bīkandī and the other with Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh.” (1)
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