and his brother ʿImād al-Dawla had in fact died a good while before him.

– al-Khayyām, Abū Ṣāliḥ Khalaf ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl (repeated—see no. 51)

The prolific traditionist, the foremost transmitter of Bukhara, Abū Ṣāliḥ Khalaf ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī al-Khaymī.

He reported hadith from Ṣāliḥ Jazara, Mūsā ibn Aflah, Naṣr ibn Aḥmad al-Kindī, ʿUmar ibn Hannād, Faraj ibn Ayyūb, and a host of others.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Ḥākim, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Gunjar, and Abū Saʿd al-Idrīsī; the last of these declared him weak.

Al-Khalīlī said: “He had memorization and learning, yet he is extremely weak; he transmitted texts that are unknown.”

I heard al-Ḥākim and Ibn Abī Zurʿa say: “We wrote a great deal from him, but we disown responsibility for what he relates.”

I say: he lived for eighty-six years.

He died in Jumada I of the year 361 AH.

In that same year also died al-Ḥasan ibn al-Khaḍir al-Asyūṭī and ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Khafīf al-Darrāj.

142 – al-Dhuhlī, Abū al-Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh

The Imām, the scholar, the senior transmitter, the master of hadith, the Chief Judge, Abū al-Ṭāhir Muḥammad