in Nīshāpūr, from whom al-Ḥākim acquired a vast store of learning.
A lengthy biography of Ibn Khuzaymah appears in The History of Nīshāpūr; it runs to a little over twenty folios and contains his final testament together with two elegiac poems composed in his memory.
I have verified that he died on the second of Dhū al-Qaʿda in the year 311 AH, having lived eighty-nine years.
We have heard his work Mukhtaṣar al-Mukhtaṣar through a high-level chain of transmission, although there is a gap for me personally.
In that same year passed away: Abū Jaʿfar ibn Ḥamdān al-Ḥīrī—the compiler of the Ṣaḥīḥ; Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Ilbīrī—the ḥāfiẓ of al-Andalus; the Ḥanbalī authority Abū Bakr al-Khallāl; the Sufi master in Iraq Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jarīrī—some say his given name was Ḥasan; the leading grammarian Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn al-Sariyy al-Zajjāj of Baghdad; the chief minister Ḥāmid ibn al-ʿAbbās; Ḥammād ibn Shākir al-Nasafī, a close companion of al-Bukhārī; the musnid of Baghdad, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq al-Madāʾinī al-Anmāṭī; the ḥāfiẓ of Herat, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUrwa; the ḥāfiẓ of Marw, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd; the muhaddith of Antioch, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Fīl al-Hamadhānī; the physician-philosopher Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī; and the musnid of Nīshāpūr, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Shādal ibn ʿAlī, a client of the Banū Hāshim.
Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad; Zāhir al-Mustamlī informed us; Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muqrīʾ informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad ibn Khuzaymah informed us; my grandfather informed us; Abū Mūsā narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us; Saʿīd narrated from Qatādah, from Anas, who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Whoever forgets a prayer or oversleeps it, its expiation is to perform it as soon as he remembers.” (1)