Among those who transmitted from him were al-Ṭabarānī, Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, Ibn al-Muqriʾ, al-Mayānajī, and others. He held great prestige, was trustworthy, decisive in word, and highly beneficial; people continued to visit his grave for about a year. He lived eighty-nine years and died in 309 AH.
123 – Shakkar Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir ibn Saʿīd al-Sulamī *
The imām, erudite scholar, and meticulous ḥāfiẓ; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—also known as Abū Jaʿfar—Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān ibn Rajāʾ ibn ʿAbd Allāh, a descendant of the Companion al-ʿAbbās ibn Mirdās al-Sulamī, from Herat, widely called Shakkar the ḥāfiẓ.
He heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ al-Qushayrī, ʿAlī ibn Khashram, ʿUmar ibn Shabbah, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Ramādī, Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Miṣrī, and many others.
Possessing a vast body of transmissions and producing excellent compilations, he was narrated from by Abū al-Walīd Ḥassān ibn Muḥammad, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Maṭar, Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr, and others.
Al-Ḥākim said: Shakkar taught hadith in Marw, Ṭūs, Sarakhs, and Marw al-Rūdh,