He transmitted ḥadiths from his paternal uncle al-Ḥasan ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Būrānī, Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, Abū Usāmah, Abū Nuʿaym, and a number of others.

The scholars of Bukhara narrated from him.

Bakr ibn Munīr said: I heard my father ask Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī about Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham when he first arrived. He replied, “Record from him, for he is trustworthy.”

Bakr added: Everything we heard him relate came from memory, while the books lay open in front of him, unused.

Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Khallāl informed me; Jaʿfar informed us; the Salafī informed us; Abū ʿAlī al-Bardānī informed us; Hannād informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ghunjār informed us; Aḥmad ibn Abī Ḥāmid al-Bāhilī narrated to us; Bakr ibn Munīr ibn Khālid narrated to us:

I heard Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham al-Bajali say, “In Baghdad there was one of al-Mutawakkil’s commanders whose wife continually bore daughters. When she became pregnant again, he swore, ‘If this child is a girl I will kill you with the sword.’

“When the time for delivery came, the wife and the midwife sat down, and she expelled something like a small leather pouch that writhed about. They cut it open, and forty sons emerged from it, every one of whom lived. I later saw them in Baghdad, mounted behind their father, and he had purchased a wet-nurse for each of them.”

Bakr said: I was present in the teaching session of Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī when my father relayed to him what Ibn al-Haytham had told us. He remarked, “He is truthful and free of reproach.”

Ghunjār said: He died in the year 249 AH.

I (the author) say: And Bakr is reliable.

Transcendent is the One who has power over all things. (1)