Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, a native of Medina who later settled in Egypt, known as al-Khāmī (1).

He heard hadith from Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī, and a number of others.

Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās, Munīr ibn Aḥmad al-Khashshāb, and others.

His narrations are found with elevated chains in the Khilʿiyyāt collection (2).

Judge ʿAbd Allāh ibn Walīd al-Ẓāhirī had pronounced him trustworthy. When Ibn Walīd was removed from office, however, the new judge struck his name—together with those of several others—from the register. They therefore gathered and went in to Kāfūr, the deputy of Egypt, with Abū al-Ṭāhir among them, and he said:

“Master, Yūnus narrated to us, saying: Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Do not envy one another, do not sever ties, do not turn your backs on one another; rather, be—O servants of Allah—brothers. It is not lawful for a Muslim to shun his brother for more than three days’ (3).

These people have boycotted us and abandoned us, and by contravening this hadith they have become sinful and their testimony is inadmissible.”

Kāfūr assigned someone to look into their case and promised a favorable resolution.

Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Madīnī passed away in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 341 AH, at the age of ninety-three.

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān relate: