Related from him were: Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Tamṭām, Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, and others.

Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.” (1)

Mūsā ibn Hārūn stated, “He died in Basra in the year 231 AH.” (2)

I say: he was in his nineties when he passed away, and the same was true of his brother.

233 – Muḥammad ibn Salām al-Jumaḥī *

The erudite scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jumaḥī; their clientage went back to Qudāmah ibn Maẓʿūn.

He was learned, well-versed in historical reports, accomplished in literature, and outstanding in his field.

He transmitted ḥadith from Mubārak ibn Faḍālah, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Abū ʿAwānah, and others of their tier.

Among those who narrated from him were Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr, Thaʿlab, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Abbār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Abū Khalīfah, and many others.