and three hundred AH, a few days before Ibn Khuzaymah. My father and Abū ʿUthmān would, for a time, make regular visits together to Abū Ḥafṣ al-Naysābūrī.

I say: Ibn Khuzaymah died on the second of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in the year 311 AH, and at that time the mere mention of Imām Abū Jaʿfar filled everyone’s mouth. He left behind two well-known sons: Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Ḥamdān, the shaykh of Khwarazm, and the musnid of Naysābūr, Abū ʿAmr (1) ibn Ḥamdān.

195 – Ibn al-Ashqar, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
The shaykh, the trustworthy scholar, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Khalīl, known as Ibn al-Ashqar, the transmitter of al-Bukhārī’s al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr from its author. He was a ḥadith scholar, long-lived, an imam, and a muftī.

He heard from: Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Luwayn, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Qaṭṭān, al-Ḥusayn ibn Mahdī, Rajāʾ ibn Murajja, and a number of others.

Those who narrated from him include: Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Jibrīl ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī, Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyūyah, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Yūsuf, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Zanbīl, and a group besides them.

He assumed the judgeship of the Karkh district of Baghdad.

He also related ḥadiths in Hamadhān and Iṣfahān, and his narrations circulate among the scholars of those regions.

He passed away in the year ‘a few-and-ten’ after three hundred AH.