Firrabr—and in Bikand as well—those legacies remained alive, and people continued to benefit from him.

I say: Khālid ibn Aḥmad, the amir, (1)–al-Ḥākim remarks: “All of his works in Bukhara were commendable save for the grudge he bore against al-Bukhārī; that was a misstep and the very cause for the loss of his sovereignty.”

He heard ḥadith from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Qawārīrī, and others.

Those who related from him include ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jallāb in Hamadhān and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Azraq in Marw. Khālid had inclined toward Yaʿqūb ibn al-Layth, and when he set out for the ḥajj he was arrested in Baghdad, where he remained imprisoned until he died that same year, 269 AH.

Notice of his death:

Ibn ʿAdī said: I heard ʿAbd al-Quddūs ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Samarqandī say, “Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl came to Khartanak—a village two farsakhs from Samarqand—where he had relatives, so he lodged with them. One night, after finishing the night prayer, I heard him supplicating: ‘O Allah, although the earth is vast, it has become constricted for me; so take me back to You.’ The month had not yet ended before he passed away, and his grave is in Khartanak. (2)”

Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥātim said: I heard Abū Manṣūr Ghālib ibn Jibrīl—at whose house Abū ʿAbd Allāh was staying—say, “He remained with us for several days, then fell ill, and his sickness became severe. He even dispatched a messenger to the city of Samarqand to bring out Muḥammad, and when he arrived …"