al-Nubi. He was a pious and upright man who founded the city of al-Kadraʾ (1) and the city of al-Maʿqir (2); he also built congregational mosques, ruled with justice, and gave freely in charity. He died in 402 AH—meaning Ḥusayn—and in the fourth century there were in Yemen propagandists for the Qarmaṭians.
103 – al-ʿAbqasi, Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ahmad
The just judge, Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAli ibn Firas—some say that between ʿAli and Firas there was another Ahmad—al-ʿAbqasi, a Meccan, a perfumer, and the principal hadith authority of the Hijaz.
He was born in 312 AH.
While still a boy of ten he heard hadith from: Abu Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Daybuli; Abu al-Turayk Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Musa al-Saʿdi al-Himsi; Muhammad ibn al-Rabiʿ ibn Sulayman al-Jizi; Abu Saʿid ibn al-Aʿrabi; ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Muqriʾ; Bukayr ibn Muhammad al-Haddad; Abu al-Yasaʿ Ismaʿil ibn Muhammad al-Miṣṣiṣī; Abu ʿAli al-Husayn ibn al-Fath al-Naysaburi, the jurist of Kimam; al-ʿAbbas ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Qutaybah; and others.
Among those who transmitted from him were: Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-ʿAtiqi and Abu Saʿd Ismaʿil.