I say: al-Khaṭīb also mentions him in his History and records for him a singular hadith. (1)
- Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī, Abū Isḥāq ibn Isḥāq al-Azdī
The Imām, erudite scholar, hadith master, Shaykh al-Islam, Abū Isḥāq Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl—grandson of the Basran traditionist Ḥammād ibn Zayd ibn Dirham al-Azdī, a client of the Azd tribe—Basran by origin, Mālikī in jurisprudence, judge of Baghdad, and author of numerous works.
He was born in 199 AH and devoted himself to knowledge from an early age.
He heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, al-Qaʿnabī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ al-Ghuddānī, Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb, ʿĀrim, Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmanī, Musaddad ibn Musarhad, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, and Qālūn ʿĪsā; with the last of these he recited the Qur’an according to the reading of Nāfiʿ.
He studied jurisprudence under Aḥmad ibn al-Muʿaddal and others, and acquired the science of hadith from ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, surpassing the scholars of his age in fiqh.
Among those who narrated from him are Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, al-Najjād, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Kaysān, Abū Baḥr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Barbahārī (2), and many others.