He transmitted ḥadīths from his own father, and from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Ibn Ḥimyar, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb al-Abraṣ, and others of their generation.
Al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ad-Dārimī, Abū Zurʿah of Damascus, Abū Ḥumayd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mughīrah al-ʿAwahī, and many others narrated from him.
He was counted among the great reservoirs of knowledge. Imām Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and others declared him reliable (1).
He died in 224 AH—may Allah Most High show him mercy. A number of his reports are found in the Ṣaḥīḥ.
246 – Muḥammad ibn Wahb ibn ʿAṭiyyah as-Sulamī* (Kh, Q)
The imām and mufti, Abū ʿAbd Allāh as-Sulamī, of Damascus.
Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb, al-Walīd, and ʿIrāk ibn Khālid narrated from him, while among those who narrated on his authority are adh-Dhuhlī, Abū Ḥātim, ar-Ramādī, ʿUbayd ibn Sharīk, and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jakkānī.
Al-Dāraqutnī judged him trustworthy (2), and Abū Ḥātim said, “His narrations are acceptable” (3).