ʿAbd al-Ghafir said in his History: “He was the Chief Judge Abū Bakr, son of the Imām of Islam Abū Muḥammad al-Nāṣiḥī, the foremost Ḥanafī of his age, the most versed in the school, and the most compelling in debate. He also possessed an ample share of literature, poetry, and medicine. He lectured in the Sultan’s madrasa during his father’s lifetime and held the judgeship of Nishapur under Alp Arslan for ten years, enjoying great prestige and rank. By disposition he was a jurist; he discussed legal questions with Imām al-Ḥaramayn, who spoke highly of him. (1)

Later, however, the Imām complained that he showed little restraint in taking money, and that the agents of his court and his companions did likewise, so that some people’s rights were on the verge of being lost once the door to bribes had been opened. He was then appointed judge of Rayy, and he died on his return from the Pilgrimage, in Rajab 484 AH, near Isfahan. (2)

13 – Ḥamd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mihrān * (3)
The shaykh, scholar, and reliable transmitter, Abū al-Faḍl al-Iṣfahānī, known as al-Ḥaddād, the brother of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād.

Birth: shortly after 400 AH.

He heard ḥadīth from ʿAlī ibn Mīlah, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbdakūyah, Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Dhakwānī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Kharjānī (4), Abū Saʿīd ibn Ḥasnuwayh, and several others.