Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Maymūn ibn Rāshid, Ibn al-Muqriʾ, Ibn al-Muzaffar, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Simsār, and others. He was a historian of considerable learning. He died in Muḥarram 327 AH, in his early nineties, as dated by Ibn Yūnus.
150 – Ibn Hilāl, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Naṣr al-Sulamī *
The venerable shaykh and chief musnid of Damascus, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Naṣr ibn Hilāl al-Sulamī, al-Dimashqī.
He heard ḥadīth from his father; from Mūsā ibn ʿĀmir al-Marri; Muʾammal ibn Ihāb (1); Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Isḥāq al-Jūzajānī; Wurayzah (1) ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥimṣī; and others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī, the father of Tammām; Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn; the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Isfarāʾīnī; ʿImrān ibn al-Ḥasan; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī; Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd; and others.
Al-Rāzī recorded that he died in Jumādā al-Ūlā 334 AH; he had lived a little over ninety years.
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