It is reported that he died in the year 240 AH.

130 – Abū Khaythamah, Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb ibn Shaddād al-Ḥarashī * (Kh, M, D, S, Q)
Originally from Nasaʾ and later a Baghdadi, he was a ḥāfiẓ and an unimpeachable authority (ḥujjah), one of the foremost figures of hadith. He was a client (mawlā) of Banū al-Ḥarīsh ibn Kaʿb ibn ʿĀmir ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿah. His grandfather’s name was Ashtāl, which was later Arabised; some say it was Shaddād.

After extensive travels in pursuit of knowledge, he settled in Baghdad, where he collected, authored, and excelled in this discipline—an excellence shared by his son and by his grandson Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad. It is rare to find such distinction maintained for three successive generations.

Abū Khaythamah was born in 160 AH, as stated by his son Abū Bakr.

He narrated from: Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Hushaym, Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ruʾāsī, ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr, Wakīʿ, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Sufyān Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd, Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, al-Qāsim ibn Mālik, Ibn Fuḍayl, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Bishr ibn al-Sarī, Rawḥ, Shabābah, Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, Ibn ʿUlayyah, and many others.

He also related from scholars such as ʿAffān, Muʿallā ibn Manṣūr, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah al-Jahḍarī, and their peers.

Among those who transmitted from him are the two leading Imams, al-Bukhārī and Muslim, together with Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah; al-Nasāʾī likewise narrated from him.