- Bahshal — Aslam ibn Sahl ibn Salm al-Wasitī*
A ḥāfiẓ, utterly reliable transmitter, and leading hadith scholar; the historian of the city of Wāsiṭ (1). His full name is Abū al-Ḥasan Aslam ibn Sahl ibn Salm ibn Ziyād ibn Ḥabīb al-Wasitī, the oil-seller (al-razzāz), better known as Bahshal. The same sobriquet was also borne by Aḥmad, the nephew of Ibn Wahb.
He received hadith from his maternal grandfather Wahb ibn Baqiyyah, his father’s uncle Saʿīd ibn Ziyād, Muḥammad ibn Abī Nuʿaym al-Wasitī, Muḥammad ibn Khālid al-Ṭaḥḥān, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Samʿān, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, Ibrāhīm ibn Yaʿqūb, ʿAlī ibn Ḥumayd al-Bazzāz, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Layth, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī.
Khamīs al-Ḥawzī (2) said: “He comes from the quarter of the oil-sellers, and his mosque is located there. He is trustworthy, firmly established, an imām, and worthy of inclusion in the Ṣaḥīḥ.” (3)
I say: He died in 292 AH.