He also studied jurisprudence under Abū al-Ḥasan al-Karkhī and Abū Ṭāhir ibn al-Dabbās, and he later assumed the judgeships of Mosul and of Ramla.
Al-Ḥākim narrated from him and penned an encomium in his honor.
Abū Isḥāq stated in Tabaqāt al-Fuqahāʾ: “Through him and through Abū Sahl al-Zujājī the scholars of Naysābūr acquired their mastery of fiqh.” (1)
Al-Ḥākim further said, “I heard Abū Bakr al-Abharī, the shaykh of the jurists, declare, ‘Of all the men who have come to us from Khurāsān, none was more learned in jurisprudence than Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Naysābūrī.’”
He died in 351 AH, at the age of seventy.
14 – Ibn Badr, Abū Bakr Ismāʿīl ibn Badr al-Qurṭubī
The long-lived man of letters, Abū Bakr Ismāʿīl ibn Badr al-Qurṭubī.
He received ḥadith from Baqī ibn Makhlad—being the last of his pupils to do so—as well as from Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Khashnī, and Muṭarrif ibn Qays.
Counted among the poets, he was a literary man. Some people transmitted from him and accepted his narrations with leniency. He also served as market inspector (ḥisbah) and was praised for his conduct.
He died in 351 AH.
Ibn al-Faraḍī recorded his biography.