the nephew of the judge Abū Thābit Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī; hence he was nicknamed Khwāharzādah, a Persian title meaning “the scholar’s sister’s son.”

He received hadith from his father, from Manṣūr al-Kāghadī, from Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥāzimī, and from the ḥākim Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Qanṭarī. He dictated a number of sessions, and various companions and leading scholars compiled his transmissions.

Those who narrated from him include ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Bīkandī, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Luqmān al-Nasafī, and a group of others.

His chain of transmission was among the shortest, which he had fully memorized, and he was an ocean of learning.

Al-Samʿānī mentions him in al-Ansāb (1).

He died in Bukhara in Jumāda al-ʾŪlā, 483 AH, at an advanced age.

In that same year there also passed away: ʿĀṣim al-ʿĀṣimī; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Taflisī (2); Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Thābit al-Khujandī (3), the dialectician; Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Daqqāq; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Sahl al-Sarrāj; the vizier Fakhr al-Dawlah Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jahīr; and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Tiryāqī.