230 – Ibn Abī Naṣr, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUthmān b. al-Qāsim *
The shaykh, the Imām, the attested authority, the leading scholar, and the hadith transmitter of Syria: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Naṣr ʿUthmān b. al-Qāsim b. Maʿrūf b. Ḥabīb al-Tamīmī, of Damascus, known as “the Chaste Shaykh.”
He was born in 327 AH.
He mastered the Qur’an in the reading of Abū ʿAmr under Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān, called Ghulām al-Sabbāk.
He narrated hadith from Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Abī Thābit al-Ghaddādī—an associate of al-Ḥasan b. ʿArafah; from Abū ʿAlī b. Ḥabīb al-Ḥaṣāʾirī; Khaythamah b. Sulaymān; Abū al-Ḥasan b. Ḥadhlam; Jaʿfar b. ʿAdabbas; Aḥmad b. Sulaymān b. Zabbān al-Kindī (1)—whom he later avoided citing because of the latter’s weakness; Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmārah al-Laythī; Abū ʿAlī b. Hārūn; and several others.
He stood alone in transmitting from many of these teachers.
Among those who received hadith from him were Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, Rashaʾ b. Naẓīf, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥinnāʾī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī, Abū Naṣr b. Ṭalab, Abū Saʿd al-Sammān, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Miṣṣīṣī, Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Darbandī, and many others—the last of them to die was ʿAbd al-Karīm b