At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn Salam, the pure muhaddith Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Salim ibn Salam al-Dimashqi; he heard from Dawud ibn Mala'ib, Ibn al-Ban and their generation — an accomplished imam, alert, meticulous, righteous and ascetic despite his youth, who wrote much and memorised the sciences of hadith for the Hakim; he died in Safar 630 at twenty-one, and his father was stricken by his loss. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 140
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “ابن سلام الزكي محمد بن الحسن”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-salam-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.