of Abū Muḥammad—may Allah have mercy on him—in which he mentions al-Rāzī. He then said: “He composed a number of books, among them History, which he never completed, and the Book on the Rites.”

Among those who studied with him were Ibn al-Nuʿmān—that is, Shaykh al-Mufīd—and al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Faḥḥām.

He died in the year 368 AH.

205 – ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥayyūyah al-Bukhārī*

The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, widely travelled scholar, and unrivalled grammarian, Abū Muḥammad—also known as Abū al-Qāsim—al-Bukhārī.

He taught in Damascus and elsewhere, transmitting from Sahl ibn Ḥasan al-Bukhārī the ḥāfiẓ, Makḥūl al-Bayrūtī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim al-Sijistānī, and their peers.

Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim, Tammām al-Rāzī, ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Azdī, Ghanjar al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Bukayr the Qurʾānic reciter, and ʿAlī ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Abī al-ʿAqab, one of his own teachers.

Al-Ḥākim said: “I heard him say, ‘I heard Abū Bakr ibn Ḥarb the jurist—the leading figure among the people of opinion in our town—declare: “I frequently observe that many of our jurists in this city treat the hadith scholars unjustly.”’

“I was once with Ḥātim al-ʿAtakī when an elder from our circle, one of the people of opinion, entered and asked, ‘Are you the one who transmits that the Prophet ﷺ ordered the recitation of al-Fātiḥa behind the imam?’

“He replied, ‘His statement is indeed authentic,’ meaning, ‘There is no prayer except…’”