their freedman, a Basran, an imam, a steadfast authority, Shaykh al-Islam, Abū Isḥāq the devoted.
He received hadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, ʿAlī ibn Muslim aṭ-Ṭūsī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, az-Zaʿfarānī, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include ad-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Shāhīn, Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis, and others.
ad-Dāraqutnī said, “Trustworthy—a mountain.” (1)
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Jarrāḥī said, “Whenever I came to him I found him either reciting [the Quran] or praying.” (2)
Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād an-Naysābūrī remarked, “I have never seen a man more devout than he.” (3)
I say: He died in Ṣafar, 323 AH, at a little over eighty years of age.
During his father’s lifetime, his son Hārūn assumed the judiciary of the Egyptian territories after Abū ʿUbayd ibn Ḥarbawayh. Over the province of Egypt he deputized his brother, Abū ʿUthmān Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm. Hārūn was removed from office in 316 AH.
20 – The imam, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿd al-Hamadhānī.