to adorn themselves with knowledge, just as a cloth-dealer shows off his fabrics.⦗1⦘
123 – Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī* (T, S)⦗2⦘
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and trustworthy narrator; Abū Ismāʿīl al-Sulamī—originally from Tirmidh and later of Baghdad.
Born: sometime after 190 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, Abū Nuʿaym, Qabīṣah ibn ʿUqbah, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, al-Ḥumaydī, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, ʿĀrim, Ḥammād ibn Mālik al-Ḥarastānī, Isḥāq ibn al-Arkūn, Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād, and others of their rank in the Hijaz, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq.
He devoted himself ⦗3⦘ to this discipline, compiled and authored works, lived to an advanced age, and scholars travelled to him from afar.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Makhlad, al-Maḥāmilī, and Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār,
(1) The report is maqtuʿ (interrupted), for it is the statement of Habib b. ʿUbayd al-Rahbi, a reliable tabiʿi who is cited by Muslim.
(*) Sources: Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 7/190–191; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, 2/42–44; Ibn Abi Yaʿla, Tabaqat al-Hanabila, 1/279–280; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq, MS 15/58a–59a; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 7/265; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, MS 1174; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, MS 3/190; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 2/604–605; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 2/64; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 2/212; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 11/69; Ibn al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ, 2/102; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 9/62–63; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 263; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 328; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Mufassirin, 2/104–105; Ibn ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/176.
(2) An additional phrase supplied from Tahdhib.
(3) In the original manuscript the letter ʿayn is vocalised with a fat-ha, whereas al-Qamus records it with a damma (ʿuniya), a pronunciation, like ruḍiya, that is rarely used.