He heard ḥadith from: al-Kudaymī, Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Barbahārī, and a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him were: al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Abī al-Fawāris, Ibn Razqawayh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Sukkari, Ṭalḥah ibn al-Ṣaqr, and Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah al-Niʿālī.
People recorded ḥadith from him through the selections of al-Dāraqutnī. Al-Barqānī pronounced him trustworthy and praised him.
He passed away in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 356 AH, at the age of eighty-seven.
65 – Ibn Salm, Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Jaʿfar al-Khuttulī *
A righteous man: Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn S alm al-Khuttulī, later of Baghdad.
He heard ḥadith from: al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, al-Kudaymī, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Bishr ibn Mūsā, and Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā.
Among those who transmitted from him are: Ibn Razqawayh, Abū Naṣr ibn Ḥasnūn, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris, Ṭalḥah al-Kattānī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Sattūrī, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was reliable and righteous.”
He was born in 271 AH and died in 356 AH.
His brother, the authoritative scholar, is:
66 – Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn S alm al-Khuttulī **