He also studied jurisprudence under Bishr, Ibn Samāʿah, the disciples of Abū Yūsuf, and Muḥammad.
Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī remained in his company, learned law from him, and, after Bakkār ibn Qutaybah, he himself held the judgeship of Egypt for a time. He was an ocean of knowledge, celebrated for an exceptional memory and remarkable intelligence.
Imām Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaymarī al-Ḥanafī said, “In his day he was the shaykh of our Ḥanafī companions in Egypt; he had taken his learning from the pupils of Abū Yūsuf.”
I add: He narrated a vast amount of hadith entirely from memory.
He died in Muḥarram, 280 AH.
154 – Al-Dayraʿqūlī ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Haytham ibn Ziyād *
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and authoritative scholar—Abū Yaḥyā ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Haytham ibn Ziyād ibn ʿImrān al-Dayraʿqūlī, later al-Baghdādī, the cotton-merchant.
He was born sometime after 190 AH, travelled widely, and wrote extensively.
He heard hadith from Abū Nuʿaym, Abū al-Yamān of Ḥimṣ, Abū Bakr al-Ḥumaydī, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb, ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh, and their peers.
Among those who transmitted from him were Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk, Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, and others.
Aḥmad ibn Kāmil the judge said, “We wrote from him, and he was reliable and trustworthy.”