and he gathered abundantly, putting into writing transmissions with both elevated and extended chains, the weighty reports and the slight ones.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Shāhīn, Ibn Mandah, al-Ḥākim, Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, Ibn Razqūwayh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl, Abū ʿAlī Shadhān, and several others.
Al-Dāraqutnī said, “Our teacher Abū ʿAmr wrote from al-ʿAṭāridī and those who came after him; he copied the lengthy compilations in his own hand, and he was among the trustworthy.” (1)
Al-Khaṭīb added, “Ibn al-Sammāk was reliable and firmly established.” (2)
I heard Ibn Razqūwayh say: “The White Falcon, Abū ʿAmr ibn al-Sammāk al-Sulamī, narrated to us. Al-Dāraqutnī informed us that he heard Ibn al-Sammāk say: al-Ḥusayn al-Nūbakhtī once sent word to me—after I had attended to a need of his—saying, ‘Send a note to the judge Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī ʿUmar so that he will accept your testimony.’ I replied, ‘I have no desire for that. I testify to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on my own and my testimony is accepted; I do not wish to testify concerning the common folk together with another person.’”
He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 344 AH. Roughly fifty thousand people joined his funeral procession; his son Muḥammad led the funeral prayer, and this Muḥammad lived to an advanced age. He also transmitted from al-Baghawī and others.
- Ibn al-Haddād — Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣrī*
The Imām, the luminary, the firmly grounded authority, Shaykh al-Islam, the scholar of the age: Abū Bakr Muḥammad