Muḥammad ibn Khumays al-Juhayni (1), al-Kaʿbi, al-Mawsili, a Shāfiʿī.

He was born in 466 AH; this date is recorded by al-Samʿānī.

He reached Baghdad while still a youth, studied jurisprudence under al-Ghazālī, and heard ḥadith from Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, Ibn Ṭalḥah al-Niʿālī, the judge Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Shāmī, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥumaydī, and several others.

In Mosul he received transmissions from Abū Naṣr ibn Wadaʿān.

He served for a time as judge of al-Raḥbah (2), after which he returned to his homeland.

Sometime after 540 AH he visited Baghdad again and taught there. Among those who narrated from him were Sulaymān and ʿAlī, the sons of Muḥammad al-Mawsili, along with a number of others.

None of his narrations have reached us with a high chain of transmission.

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “I read some ḥadith to him. He was a distinguished imām, dignified in appearance, of fine manners, handsome in his grey hair, and possessed a large store of memorised material.”

Ibn al-Najjār said: “Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmmār, the preacher, informed me that Ibn Khumays died on the ninth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 552 AH.

“He left several writings: Manhaj al-Tawḥīd (The Path of Monotheism); Taḥrīm al-Ghaybah (The Prohibition of Backbiting); Akhbār al-Manāmāt (Reports of Dreams); Luʾluʾat al-Manāsik (The Pearl of the Rituals); Manāqib al-Abrār (The Merits of the Pious); Farḥ al-Muwaḍḍaḥ ʿalā Madhhab Zayd ibn Thābit (The Clarifying Exultation According to the School of Zayd ibn Thābit); and Manhaj al-Murīd (The Path of the Seeker).”

In that same year there also died: Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Kharrāz al-Ḥarīmī (3).