al-Jaʿābī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zabībī, and a number of other transmitters from Baghdad and Nishapur as well.
Al-Khāṭīb judged him trustworthy and cited no date for his death.
226 – Ibn Salm, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Salm al-Isfahānī
The ḥāfiẓ, erudite, firmly reliable Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Salm al-Isfahānī.
He heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Busrī, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakīm al-Muqawwam, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim, Ismāʿīl ibn Yazīd ibn al-Qaṭṭān, and their peers.
Those who narrated from him include the judge Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Abū Shaykh, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Nīsābūrī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and others.
Al-Ḥākim said: “He died in Rayy in 309 AH.”
I read to Fāṭimah bint Sulaymān—al-Musallam ibn Aḥmad informed us in 628 AH; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan the ḥāfiẓ informed us in 544 AH; Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tamīmī informed us; Yūsuf the judge informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Salm al-Isfahānī informed us at Rayy—[he said:] Aḥmad ibn Sinān narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Abū Isḥāq, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Kurayb (1), from Jābir: