He was a truthful and learned man. He started his son on ḥadith study at a very early age, had him listen to the leading authorities, and even secured for him formal authorizations from al-Aṣamm and Ibn Dāsah.
199 – Ibn al-Nāṣih ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Dimashqī *
The imam, traditionist, and mufti, Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Nāṣih al-Dimashqī, the Shāfiʿī jurist—known as Ibn al-Mufassir—who later settled in Egypt.
He heard ḥadith from: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim al-Rawwās; ʿAlī ibn Ghālib al-Saksakī; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh; the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Balkhī; and al-Junayd ibn Khalaf al-Samarqandī—the last three of whom he met during the pilgrimage.
Al-Dāraqutnī made selections from his narrations, and among those who transmitted from him were: Ibn Mandah; ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām; Abū al-Nuʿmān Turāb ibn ʿUbayd; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Ghāzī; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī; and others.
He died in Rajab 365 AH, having lived into his nineties.
I recited to Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who told us that al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Bunn al-Asadī informed him, saying: my grandfather told us; he was told by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Maṣṣīṣī; he was told by Turāb ibn ʿUmar; he was told by Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Nāṣih; who reported from ʿAlī