Then the vizier Ḥāmid ibn al-ʿAbbās died in Ramadan of that same year, having been poisoned.

ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bujayr al-Bujayrī (1), the author of “al-Ṣaḥīḥ” (2), also passed away.

Ibn Khuzaymah (3)—Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Khuzaymah ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Bakr al-Sulamī, the client of Majshar (4) ibn Muzāḥim—namely the Imām Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah, surnamed “the Imām of the Imāms,” likewise died.

He was one of the great repositories and oceans of knowledge. He travelled through many lands and journeyed to distant horizons in search of learning and the audition of ḥadīth, writing prolifically, compiling, and collecting. His book “al-Ṣaḥīḥ” is among the most beneficial and distinguished works. He was a mujtahid in the religion of Islam. Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī relates in “Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah” that he said: “Since I reached the age of sixteen, I have never imitated anyone [in any issue].” (5)

We have provided a lengthy biography of him in our “Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah,” which is sufficient; Allah knows best.

He is the one who, when the lot fell to him, rose to pray so that Allah might grant provision through his prayer at a time when he, Muḥammad ibn Naṣr, Muḥammad ibn Jarīr, and Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rūyānī were destitute. Ibn al-Jawzī records this incident with two chains of transmission in his biography (7). It occurred in Egypt during the reign of Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, and Allah provided for them through him (8). We have mentioned [that] (9) in the entry on al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān (10); Allah knows best.

[Among those who also died in this year] was Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā the physician (11), author of the great compendium (12) in that field.