Yahya ibn Adam, who in turn had received it from Abu Bakr. (1)
Al-Naqqāsh relates that Yahya al-Fahhām said, “I saw Khalaf ibn Hishām in a dream and asked him, ‘What has Allah done with you?’ He replied, ‘He has forgiven me.’ (2)
Khalaf passed away on the seventh of Jumada al-Akhirah, in the year 229 AH, when he was nearly eighty years old.
Ahmad ibn Ishaq told us; al-Fath ibn Abd Allah told us; Hibah Allah ibn Husayn told us; Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Bazzaz narrated to us; Isa ibn Ali narrated to us; Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi narrated to us; Khalaf ibn Hisham al-Bazzar narrated to us; Abu Shihab narrated from Asim al-Aḥwal, from Abu Uthman, from Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
“I was with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in a garden when Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman came and knocked at the gate. The Prophet said to me, ‘Stand up, open it for them, and give them the glad tidings of Paradise.’”
However, he granted Uthman a distinction not given to the other two. (3)
Those who died the same year as Khalaf include: Abu Nuʿaym Dhirar ibn Surad; Husayn ibn Abd al-Awwal; Yazid ibn Mihran al-Khabbaz al-Kufi; Abu Yasir Ammar ibn Nasr; Ubayd ibn Yaʿish al-Kufi; Maliḥ ibn Wakiʿ ibn al-Jarrah; ʿAbbad ibn Musa al-Khattali; Muhammad ibn Muʿawiyah an-Naysaburi in Mecca; Nuʿaym ibn Hammad al-Khuzaʿi; ʿAmr ibn Khalid al-Harrani in Egypt; Thabit ibn Musa the ascetic, Abu Yazid; and Muʿammal ibn al-Faḍl al-Harrani.