Khalaf ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn al-Layth ibn Khalaf ibn al-Farqad خلف بن أحمد بن محمد بن خلف بن الليث بن خلف بن الفرقد

Name: Khalaf ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn al-Layth ibn Khalaf ibn al-Farqad

Fame: Khalaf ibn Ahmad al-Sajzi

Kuniya: Abu Ahmad

Lineage: al-Sajzi, al-Sijistani

Occupation: Emir, Faqih (Islamic Jurist)

Rank: Thiqah (Trustworthy)

Lived in: Iraq, Nishapur, India, Bukhara, Khorasan

Died in: India

Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani: He was a man of virtue, knowledge, politics, and kingship. He heard and narrated hadith.

Abu Abd Allah al-Hakim al-Naysaburi: From the house of the rulers of Khorasan, he was unique among Emirs in his reverence for knowledge and its people, and in his patronage of anyone who possessed any type of knowledge or virtue.

al-Dhahabi: The king, the hadith scholar, the ascetic, the master of Sistan, one of the great kings, he bestowed many favors upon the people of knowledge.

Abd al-Hayy ibn al-'Imad al-Hanbali: A great and virtuous scholar, favored by scholars, he died a martyr in prison in India.