He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 249 AH, when he was in his eighties.
70 – Muḥammad ibn Aslam ibn Sālim ibn Yazīd al-Kindī, their mawla (client)*—the Imām, ḥāfiẓ, god-fearing scholar, Shaykh al-Islām; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kindī, their mawla, the Khurāsānī, the Ṭūsī.
Birth: around 180 AH.
He heard (hadith) from: Yazīd ibn Hārūn; Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd and his brother Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ; Ḥusayn ibn al-Walīd al-Naysābūrī; Qabīṣah; Abū Nuʿaym; ʿAbd al-Ḥakam ibn Maysarah—the associate of Ibn Jurayj; al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl; Maḥāḍir ibn al-Muwarriʿ; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr; and Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm.
He authored: al-Musnad, al-Arbaʿīn (The Forty), and other works.
Those who transmitted from him include: Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbānī; the Imām of the Imāms Ibn Khuzaymah; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd; Muḥammad ibn Wakīʿ al-Ṭūsī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr al-Ṭūsī; Zanjūyah ibn Muḥammad al-Labbād; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Naṣr al-Ṭūsī; and many others.
Among his contemporaries who also narrated from him were: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ.