Abu Nasr al-Saffar

أبو نصر الصفار

Ishaq ibn Ahmad ibn Shayth, Abu Nasr al-Saffar, though some name him Ahmad ibn Ishaq. A Hanafi jurist from Bukhara. al-Sam'ani says his family had standing in learning in Bukhara; he settled in Mecca, where his writings multiplied and his learning spread, and he died at al-Ta'if. al-Hakim, in his History of Nishapur, describes him as a jurist, a man of letters and a memoriser, who also sought hadith with other kinds of learning. The heading gives his death as 405 AH. ¹