and in Nishapur there also died the Hanafi shaykh Abu al-Hasan ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Karkhi, as well as the Shafiʿi shaykh Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Aḥmad al-Marwazi.

230 – Khaythamah Abu al-Hasan ibn Sulaymān ibn Ḥaydarah al-Qurashi*

He was the long-lived, reliable imam and the hadith scholar of greater Syria: Abu al-Hasan Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān ibn Ḥaydarah ibn Sulaymān al-Qurashi, a Syrian from Tripoli, compiler of Fadāʾil al-Ṣaḥābah (The Merits of the Companions).

A tireless, far-travelling seeker of hadith, he was constantly on the move.

Abu ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Kamil al-Aṭrābulusi relates that Khaythamah was born in the year 250 AH.

I remark: He learned from Abu ʿUtbah Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj al-Ḥijazi, a companion of Baqiyyah; from Muḥammad ibn ʿIsa ibn Ḥayyān al-Madāʾini, a companion of Ibn ʿUyaynah; from Ibrahim ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Qaṣṣār; from al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Abi Maʿshar al-Sindi, both of whom transmitted from Wakīʿ; from the hadith master Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾi; from al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walid al-Bayruti; from Yaḥyā ibn Abi Ṭālib; from Aḥmad ibn Abi Garzah al-Kufi; from Aḥmad ibn Mulāʿib; from Abu ʿUbaydah al-Sariyy ibn Yaḥyā; from Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Bāhili; from Isḥaq ibn Sayyār al-Naṣibi; from Abu Yaḥyā ibn Abi Masrah al-Makki; from Muḥammad ibn Saʿd al-ʿAwfi; from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥunaini; from Isḥaq ibn Ibrahim al-Dabari; from ʿUbayd ibn Muḥammad al-Kishwari; from ʿAli ibn Ibrahim al-Wasiti; from Aḥmad ibn Abi Khaythamah; and from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥakam.