—in the Sharqiyya quarter. There he disciplined a litigant over a certain matter, and the man died. He wrote a memorandum to al-Muʿtaḍid saying, “The blood money for this man is chargeable to the public treasury; if the Commander of the Faithful wishes to remit it to his heirs, let him do so.” So the caliph sent him ten thousand, and he delivered the sum to the heirs.⦗1⦘

I add: Al-Muʿtaḍid held Abū Ḥāzim in great respect and esteem. It is related that when Abū Ḥāzim lay dying he wept and kept saying, “O Lord! From the judge’s bench to the grave!”

He also composed gentle verse.

Muḥammad ibn al-Fayḍ said: Abū Ḥāzim assumed the judgeship of Damascus in 264 AH, until al-Muʿtaḍid—before his caliphate—arrived in Damascus to fight Ibn Ṭūlūn; Abū Ḥāzim then accompanied him to Iraq.

Al-Ṭaḥāwī said: He died in Baghdad in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 292 AH.

As for the Abū Ḥāzim whose name begins with an undotted ḥāʾ, he is Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr; he died in 316 AH.⦗2⦘

273 – al-Jārūdī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr
The unmatched imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the precise master, the most eminent, the foremost man of Khurāsān, Abū