among those who narrated from him were al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Tubbānī, and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sumnān the tutor—his transmission of the shaykh’s reports is found in al-Tubbānī’s study circle. Khamīs al-Ḥawzī pronounced him reliable. (1)
104 – Ibn Nujayd, Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd ibn Aḥmad al-Sulamī *
The shaykh, imām, exemplar, ḥadith scholar, god-fearing master, and Shaykh of Nishapur: Abū ʿAmr Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd, son of the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Sulamī al-Naysābūrī, the Sufi, senior figure of the fraternity and chief transmitter (musnid) of Khurasan.
He was born in 272 AH.
He studied under Abū Muslim al-Kajji, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Bajalī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, ʿAlī ibn al-Junayd al-Rāzī, Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Naṣr, and many others.
He possessed a fascicle whose chains of transmission rank among the loftiest we have heard.
Among those who narrated from him were his grandson Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣaffār, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān al-Naṣravī, ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn Ṭāhir the legal theorist, Abū Naṣr ʿUmar ibn Qatāda, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid ibn Muḥammad the judge, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdash, Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Masrūr, and others.
Among his fine qualities is that when his ascetic shaykh, Abū ʿUthmān al-Ḥīrī, once asked in his gathering for money