عثمان بن عبد الرحمن ابن الصلاح
Ibn al-Salah
Abu Amr
577 AH / 1181 CE643 AH / 1245 CEotherthiqah
Damascus
Ibn al-Salah wrote the famous Muqaddima that structured hadith terminology for later generations. He taught in Damascus and influenced all later manuals. Scholars considered him reliable and authoritative.