He also compiled a concise chronicle of the Companions who settled in Ḥimṣ; we have heard it ourselves, and two of his own shaykhs—Anas ibn al-Salm and Ibn Jawṣā—likewise heard it from him.
Ibn Zabr stated: “He passed away in the year 324 AH.”
115 – Al-Kharāʾiṭī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad *
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, truthful transmitter, and author: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sahl ibn Shākir al-Sāmarrī, known as al-Kharāʾiṭī.
He wrote Makārim al-Akhlāq, Masāwiʾ al-Akhlāq, Iʿtilāl al-Qulūb, and other works ⦗1⦘.
He received hadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, ʿUmar ibn Shabbah, Saʿdān ibn Naṣr, Saʿdān ibn Yazīd, Ḥumayd ibn al-Rabīʿ, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Ramādī, Aḥmad ibn Budayl, Shuʿayb ibn Ayyūb, and several others.
Narrators from him include Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Abū ʿAlī ibn Muhannā al-Darānī ⦗2⦘, Muḥammad and Aḥmad—the two sons of Mūsā al-Simsār—, the judge Yūsuf al-Mayānajī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, and many others.