Khanb (1) al-Bukhari, later al-Baghdadi—the dihqān (land-owning notable), resident of Bukhara and its principal musnid.

His birth: 266 AH.

In his youth he heard ḥadith from: Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib, al-Ḥasan ibn Mukram, Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Washshāʾ, Jaʿfar al-Ṣāʾigh, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Abū Qilābah al-Raqāshī, and their peers.

Among those who narrated from him were: Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Zāhid, ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn al-Walīd al-Zawzani—the teacher of al-Bayhaqī—Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bukhārī, the ḥadith scholar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ghunjar, and the scholars of Transoxiana.

His father was originally from Bukhara. He travelled to Baghdad, married there, and Abu Bakr was born and reared in that city; then, at the age of twenty, he returned to his ancestral homeland.

He was a jurist of the Shāfiʿī school and an intelligent ḥadith scholar whose transmissions are acceptable.

Abū Kāmil al-Baṣrī said: I heard some of my teachers say:
“We were in the session of Ibn Khanb. After he had dictated the merits of ‘the Three’ (Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, and ʿUthmān), he began dictating the merits of ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—when Abū al-Faḍl al-Sulaymānī stood up and shouted, ‘People, this man is a dajjāl (impostor); do not write!’ He left the gathering because he had not heard the section on the virtues of the Three.”

I say: This only shows the boorishness and harshness of al-Sulaymānī—may Allah pardon him.

Ibn Khanb died on the first of Rajab, 350 AH.