A group of scholars—including al-Bukhārī and Ibn Zabr—stated: “Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ died in the month of Dhū al-Qaʿdah, in the year 248 AH. He was counted among the leading Qur’an reciters.”
Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī said: “He learned the recitation, both by direct presentation and by listening, from Warsh, Qālūn, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, and his brother Abū Bakr ibn Abī Uways, all of whom trace back to Nāfiʿ. He also transmitted the variant letters of ʿĀṣim from Ḥaramī ibn ʿUmārah.
“Those who studied the reading under him include: Ḥajjāj al-Rushdīnī, al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Mihrān al-Jammāl, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Mālik al-Ushnānī, Ḥasan ibn al-Qāsim, al-Khaḍir ibn al-Haytham al-Ṭūsī, Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥarrānī, and others.”
I read to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim, who transmitted from Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan: Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Tawbah informed us; Abū Muḥammad ibn Hazārmard (1) informed us; ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kattānī informed us; Ibn Mujāhid, in his work al-Sabʿah (2), narrated to us, saying:
“al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, from Warsh, Qālūn, Abū Bakr, and Ismāʿīl, from Nāfiʿ, with the variant letters.”