Al-Muqtadir later appointed him judge over Sijistān (1). Al-Qāhir then sought his legal opinion concerning the Sābians; he issued a ruling that they should be put to death, for they worship the heavenly bodies. The caliph resolved to carry this out, but the Sābians collected a large sum of money and presented it to him (2), so he relented toward them (3).

Al-Iṣṭakhrī died in Jumādā al-Ākhira, 328 AH, at a little over eighty-eight years of age. He had studied jurisprudence with the disciples of al-Muzanī and al-Rabīʿ.

105 – Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Bishr al-Harawī *
The ḥāfiẓ, reliable, widely-traveled scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shāfiʿī, the jurist.

He heard ḥadith from al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Murādī, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Bayrūtī, al-Ḥasan ibn Mukram, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād al-Ṭihrānī, and their peers in Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.

Those who narrated from him include al-Ṭabarānī, al-Zubayr ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Asdabādhī, the judge Abū Bakr al-Abharī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī Hāshim the Qurʾān-reciter, and a number of others,