ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥalīm al-Bukhārī, the Shāfiʿī.
He was counted among the celebrated men of brilliance and was one of the jurists whose independent opinions carry recognized weight within the school (1).
Versed in many disciplines, quick-witted, an able debater, he possessed wide-ranging mastery of literature and rhetorical expression.
He studied under the master Abū Bakr al-Qaffāl and the Imām Abū Bakr al-Uwdanī (2).
He reported hadith from Khalaf ibn Muḥammad al-Khayyām, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khanb, Bakr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī al-Dukhamsinī (3), and a number of others.
He was born in 338 AH.
Some maintained that he was born in Jurjān, then taken to and reared in Bukhārā; others said he was actually born in Bukhārā itself.
He produced valuable written works.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥākim—who was older than he—, the ḥadith scholar Abū Zakariyyā ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarwadhī, and many others.
I have come across no comprehensive biography of him. He did fine work in the field of hadith, though he does not rank with al-Ḥākim or ʿAbd al-Ghanī; I mention him here only because of his renown.