Then al-Ḥākim let his pen run long when writing Ṣāliḥ’s biography, filling it with curiosities and points of inquiry. He also named a large company who had heard directly from Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad; the last of them to die was Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir, who remained alive in Bukhārā until a little after 370 AH. Ṣāliḥ himself passed away in Dhu ʾl-Ḥijjah, on the twenty-second of the month, 293 AH, at the age of eighty-nine.
In that same year there also died: ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ al-Saddūsī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs ibn Kāmil; ʿAbdān ibn Muḥammad, the jurist of Marw; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aʿyan in Egypt; Sulaymān ibn al-Muʿāfā ibn Sulaymān, who died on the frontier; and Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥusayn.
I read to Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿImrān—the jurist known as Sahnūn—at the frontier. He told us: “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Ṣafrawī informed us in 631 AH; Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Salafī informed us; the judge Abū al-Maḥāsin ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ruyānī informed us in 501 AH; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Abī Naṣr al-ʿĀṣimī in Bukhārā informed us; Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad dictated to us; Abū ʿAlī Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī narrated to us; Surayj ibn Yūnus Abū al-Ḥārith narrated to us; Salm ibn Qutaybah narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Muthannā informed us, from his uncle Thumāmah ibn Anas, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
‘Whenever the Prophet ﷺ spoke a statement, he would repeat it three times so that it might be understood from him.’ Al-Bukhārī also recorded this (1).