still transmit from him. He passed away in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 392 AH, and crowds of people joined his funeral procession.

413 – al-Nasībī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Naṣr ibn Muḥammad
The imam, ḥadīth master, accomplished scholar, and penetrating critic: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Nasībī al-Miṣrī, who settled in Nīshāpūr and authored several works.

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim said, “He was a phenomenon of memorization; discussing traditions with him was likened to magic. He lived austerely and kept the company of the righteous. Later he traveled to Transoxiana, turned his attention to literature and poetry, and entered governmental service. I met him there and found his prodigious memory exactly as it had been; I could only marvel at him.”

He heard (hadith) in Egypt from the disciples of Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā and from Aḥmad, the nephew of Ibn Wahb; in Syria from Abū Hāshim al-Kinānī and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Qaysarānī; in Iraq from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥakīmī and Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār; and in Nīshāpūr from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm.

He died in 386 AH.

I (the author) say: al-Ḥākim and other early scholars transmitted from him. I once saw a damaged work on the Sunan that I believe to be his, and I do not think that any of his hadith have reached me except, perhaps, by a general authorization.

In the same year there also died: Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn al-Muzakkī—Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Nīshāpūrī; the musnid Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nuʿaym al-Nuʿaymī al-Sarakhsī; and the eminent Egyptian historian Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm ibn