Talhah, and my father’s knee was so near that it almost touched the Prophet’s knee, so the two of them were pronouncing the talbiyah together (1).

Al-Khushani died in 286 AH; he was in his early eighties—may Allah have mercy on him.

His grandfather Thalabah was the son of Zayd ibn Ḥasan ibn Kalb, the son of the Prophet’s Companion Abū Thalabah al-Khushani; so stated Ibn al-Faradi (2). His own son, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, lived on until 333 AH.

His namesake, the Imam and ḥadith scholar:

228 – Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Bashshār al-Naysābūrī *
The professional copyist and ascetic.

He studied the collected works with Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī al-Naysābūrī, and the Qur’anic commentary with Isḥāq; he would copy out the Tafsīr manuscripts and live on the income from that.

He also heard ḥadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿĪsā, ʿAmr ibn Zurārah, and Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ.

Among those who transmitted from him were Muʾammal ibn al-Ḥasan and Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī.

His son ʿAbdān said: My father used to remark, “We are on a journey.”

He would fast by day and spend the night in prayer, saying, “This is what Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā advised us to do.”

Al-Ḥākim said: Abū Zakariyyā al-ʿAnbarī narrated to us: I heard Muḥammad ibn Yūnus