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and two hundred; he transmitted both works and lived to an advanced age.

Among those who received ḥadith from him were Abū Ḥātim Ibn Ḥibbān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammūyah al-Sarakhsī, and others.

Ibn Ḥammūyah’s audition from him took place in Shāsh(1) — a city of the Turks — in Shaʿbān of the year eighteen and three hundred (318 AH). We have not been able to discover the date of Ibn Khuzaym’s death, nor anything of his biography.

He is classed among the trustworthy narrators and reached his nineties—may Allah have mercy on him.

273 – ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAmr ibn Aʿyan

A reliable transmitter, Abū ʿImrān al-Samarkandī, companion of Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī and the narrator of his Musnad. A Shaykh accepted by the scholars; we know nothing further about his circumstances.

Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāghadhī and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammūyah al-Sarakhsī. I do not know when he died, only that he was alive around the year twenty and three hundred (320 AH) in Samarkand.

He and al-Shāshī became known and renowned solely through the two books we have heard. They were contemporaries in Transoxiana, belong to the generation of al-Firabrī(2), and their dates of death are close—Allah knows best.

(1) Shāsh: present-day Tashkent.
(2) Al-Firabrī: Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, the famous transmitter of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī.

(1) See Yaqut, Muʿjam al-Buldan, vol. 3, pp. 308–309. (*) We have found no biographical notice for him in the sources at our disposal. (2) In the base manuscript the word is vocalised with a kasra on the initial fa, and the same reading appears in Muʿjam al-Buldan, whereas the author of al-Lubab points it with a fatha. The nisba Farbari derives from Farbar, a town on the bank of the Jayhun (Oxus) facing Bukhara. The transmitter meant here is Muhammad b. Yusuf b. Matar b. Salih, the principal narrator of Sahih al-Bukhari from its author; he heard the collection twice—once in Farbar in 248 AH and again in Bukhara in 252 AH.

وَمائَتَيْنِ، وَحَدَّثَ بِهِمَا، وَطَالَ عُمُرُهُ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: أَبُو حَاتِمٍ بنُ حِبَّانَ، وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ حَمُّوَيْه السَّرَخْسِيُّ، وَغَيْرُهُمَا. وَسَمَاعُ ابْنِ حَمُّوَيْه مِنْهُ بِالشَّاشِ (١) - مَدِيْنَةٍ مِنْ مَدَائِنِ التُّرْكِ - وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ فِي سَنَةِ ثَمَانِيَ عَشْرَةَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ، فِي شَعْبَانَ، وَلَمْ تَبلُغْنَا وَفَاةُ ابْنِ خُزَيْمٍ، وَلاَ شَيْءٌ مِنْ سِيرَتِهِ. وَهُوَ فِي عِدَادِ الثِّقَاتِ، وَمِنْ أَبْنَاءِ التِّسْعِيْنَ ﵀. ٢٧٣ - عِيْسَى بنُ عُمَرَ بنِ العَبَّاسِ بنِ حَمْزَةَ بنِ عَمْرِو بنِ أَعْيَنَ * المُحَدِّثُ، الصَّدُوْقُ، أَبُو عِمْرَانَ السَّمَرْقِنْديُّ، صَاحِبُ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الدَّارِمِيِّ، وَرَاوِي (مُسْنَدِهِ) عَنْهُ، شَيْخٌ مَقْبُوْلٌ، لاَ نَعْلَمُ شَيْئاً مِنْ أَمْرِهِ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: أَبُو الحَسَنِ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الكَاغَدِيُّ، وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ حَمُّوَيْه السَّرَخْسِيُّ، وَلاَ أَعْلَمُ مَتَى تُوُفِّيَ، إِلاَّ أَنَّهُ كَانَ حَيّاً فِي قُرْبِ سَنَةِ عِشْرِيْنَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ، بِسَمَرْقَنْدَ، فَهُوَ وَالشَّاشِيُّ إِنَّمَا عُرِفَا وَشُهِرَا بِالكِتَابَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ سَمِعْنَاهُمَا، وَكَانَا مُتَعَاصِرَينِ بِمَا وَرَاءَ النَّهرِ، فَهُما مِنْ طَبَقَةِ الفِرَبْرِيِّ (٢) ، وَوَفِيَّاتُهُم مُتَقَارِبَةٌ - وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ -.

(١) انظر " معجم البلدان " ٣ / ٣٠٩ ٣٠٨. (*) لم نقف له على ترجمة في المصادر التي بين أيدينا. (٢) بكسر الفاء كما في الأصل، وكذا هي في " البلدان " أما صاحب " اللباب " فضبطها بفتح الفاء. وهذه النسبة إلى فربر: بلدة على طرف جيحون مما يلي بخارى. والفربري هذا: هو محمد بن يوسف بن مطر بن صالح، راوية صحيح البخاري عنه، وكان سماعه للصحيح مرتين: مرة بفربر سنة ٢٤٨، ومرة ببخارى سنة ٢٥٢. =