At the very beginning of the Sahih he provided an elevated chain for the hadith of Moses and al-Khidr(1), declaring: “ʿAli ibn Khushram narrated it to us; Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it to us.” This wording is preserved only in the recension of Ibn Hammuyah.
Al-Mustamli travelled to al-Farabri in 314 AH, and Ibn Hammuyah heard the work from him in 315 AH.
Abu Zayd al-Marwazi said: “I journeyed to al-Farabri in 318 AH.”
Al-Kushmeihani said: “I heard the Sahih from him in Farabr during Rabiʿ al-Awwal of 320 AH.”
It is related—though not authentically—that al-Farabri said: “Ninety thousand men heard the Sahih from al-Bukhari; none remains to transmit it except me.”(2)
I add: After al-Farabri, the work was transmitted by Abu Talhah Mansur ibn Muhammad al-Bazdawi al-Nasafi, who lived on until 329 AH.(3)
Farabr may be pronounced with either a kasrah or a fatha on the initial fa; it is one of the villages of Bukhara. Both pronunciations were recorded by Qadi ʿIyad(4), Ibn Qurqul(5) and al-Hazimi. He stated: “The pronunciation with the fatha is the better known, whereas…"