Al-Sallami

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Bayhaqī al-Sallāmī was a historian of the Sāmānid Empire who lived in the mid-10th century.
Ibn Funduq records that al-Sallāmī studied under Ibrahīm ibn [Muḥammad al-Bayhaqī]. According to al-Thaʿālibī, he served the Muḥtājid emirs Abū Bakr Muḥammad and Abū ʿAlī Čaghānī.
Al-Sallāmī wrote an Arabic history of the governors of Khorasan, Kitāb wulāt Khurāsān, which is now Lost [literary work|lost]. It is known only from citations in the works of others, primarily Gardīzī and Ibn al-Athīr, both of whom cite him for the death of Abū ʿAlī Čaghānī and nothing later than that. In some cases, Gardīzī quotes him outright. He appears to have shaped a narrative favourable to the Muḥtājids. The Kitāb wulāt Khurāsān is also cited in Yāqūt's Irshād, Ibn Mākūlā's Kitāb al-Ikmāl and Ibn Khallikān. Juwaynī in the 13th century is the latest author to cite it.
According to Yāqūt, al-Sallāmī also wrote a Kitāb al-wuzarā.