Al-Nasāʾī recorded the report through Zakariyyā, “the Tailor of the Sunnah,” from this Hārūn, so it has reached us with an alternate chain that is higher by two levels.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim died in Muḥarram of the year 327 AH in Rayy, having reached eighty-odd years of age.
130 – al-Burjulānī, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn al-Khalīl ibn Thābit *
The shaykh, imām, and reliable transmitter: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn al-Khalīl ibn Thābit al-Baghdādī, known as al-Burjulānī.
al-Burjulāniyya is a district of Baghdad.
He heard from al-Wāqidī, Abū al-Naḍr, al-Aswad ibn ʿĀmir Shādhān, and al-Ḥasan al-Ashyab.
Narrators who transmitted from him include ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Haytham al-Anbārī, and others.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb declared him trustworthy and said: “He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 279 AH.” (1)
= 4/360–361, in the section on pre-emption (shufʿah): “Offering the shufʿah to its rightful holder.” Also in Ahmad 6/390; Abu Dawud (3516); al-Nasaʾi 7/320, in the sales section: “Mention of shufʿah and its rulings”; Ibn Majah (2498); and al-Bayhaqi 6/105, all through the isnad of Ibrahim b. Maysarah – ʿAmr b. al-Sharid – Abu Rafiʿ.
(*) Muʿjam al-Buldan, s.v. “Barjalan”; al-Lebab 1/134; Tarikh Baghdad 4/133; Tahdhib al-Kamal, MS 21; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, MS 1/10; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 1/28; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal 6. The nisbah al-Barjulani is vocalised with ḍamma on the bā, sukūn on the rā, and ḍamma on the jīm, as recorded by Yaqut and al-Samʿani and followed by Ibn al-Athir and al-Suyuti. The base manuscript, however, shows a fatḥah on the initial bā.
(1) Tarikh Baghdad 4/133. This source dates his death to 277 AH, contrary to the figure given here by al-Dhahabi; Ibn Hajar likewise records the year 277 AH in al-Taqrib.