I say: he was among the foremost of Aḥmad’s students in jurisprudence and excellence.
And his son:
11 – Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī, the jurist *
He was one of Imām Aḥmad’s close companions, and a full volume of questions he put to the Imām has been preserved.
Among those who transmitted from him are Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Hārūn al-Warrāq, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān al-Fāmī.
He belonged to the class of scholars who put their knowledge into practice.
He died in 275 AH.
Muḥammad Biṭṭīkh (1) and a group of others narrated to us; they said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Najm narrated to us (ḥ).
And Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq (2) also informed us; Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq the judge informed us; they said: Shuhda the scribe (3) informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Niʿālī related to us, and Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq likewise informed us; Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dīnawarī related to us,