227 – al-Khushani, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām *

The Imām, ḥadīth master, meticulous verifier, linguist, and distinguished scholar: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Thaʿlaba al-Khushani, the Andalusian from Córdoba, author of several works.

He narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī and others.

He performed the ḥajj, met the leading scholars, and transmitted ḥadīths from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī, Muḥammad ibn Bashshār, Salama ibn Shabīb, and their peers, transmitting copiously and with precision.

Those who reported from him include Aslam ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, his son Muḥammad al-Khushani, Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, and others.

He was offered the post of chief judge of the community but declined, choosing instead to preside over the dissemination of ḥadīth. He was counted among the foremost reliable authorities.

Ibn Hārūn al-Ṭāʾī informed us, from Ibn Baqī, from Shurayḥ ibn Muḥammad, from Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥazm, who said: Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAwn Allāh narrated to us; Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām narrated to us; Bundār narrated to us; Ghundar narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Abū Qazaʿa, from Anas, who said:

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