Among those who reported from him was the judge Yazīd ibn Muḥammad. He said: “He died in the year 281 AH, at eighty years of age.”
97 – Salamah ibn Shabīb, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥajarī * (M, 4)
An Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and reliable authority—Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥajarī, al-Mismaʿī, al-Nasāʾī, long-time resident of Mecca.
He heard ḥadith from: Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Naysābūrī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī, Abū al-Mughīrah al-Khawlānī, and many others of that stratum and those who followed them.
Those who transmitted from him include: Muslim, the compilers of the Sunan, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ʿAllān, Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rūyānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Dakkah al-Iṣfahānī, Ḥātim ibn Maḥbūb al-Harawī, and several others.
Among his own teachers who narrated from him was Imām Aḥmad.
Al-Nasāʾī said, “There is no harm in him.” (1)
Abū Nuʿaym said, “He came to Isfahan and narrated in the year 242 AH.”