And Abū Ḥātim said, “He was precise, trustworthy, Bedouin in manner, and eloquent.” ⦗1⦘

90 – al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥafṣ ibn al-Faḍl ibn Yaḥyā ibn Dhakwān al-Hamadanī * (M, Q)
The Imām, the reliable authority, the eminent figure, the peerless jurist—Abū Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī, originally from Kufa.

He conveyed a vast store of knowledge, mastered jurisprudence, and issued legal opinions according to the doctrine of the Kufan scholars. The leadership of Isfahān, its judiciary, and the office of fatwā were all in his hands. ⦗2⦘

He narrated from Sufyān ath-Thawrī, Isrāʾīl, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Hishām ibn Saʿd, Abū Yūsuf the judge, and others of similar rank.

Among those who transmitted from him were his grandson Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, Ismāʿīl Sammūyah, Asīd ibn ʿĀṣim, ʿUmar ibn Shabbah, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, Abū Qilābah ar-Raqāshī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl aṣ-Ṣāʿigh, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥātim al-ʿAskarī, al-Kudaymī, and many others.

Abū Ḥātim said, “His station is that of truthfulness, and he is dearer to me than ʿIṣām ibn Yazīd Jabbār.” ⦗3⦘