37 – al-Narsī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh, learned scholar, Qur’an-reciter, and ḥadīth transmitter: Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad, son of the shaykh Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasnūn, al-Narsī of Baghdad, the compiler of that (mashyakha).
He heard ḥadith from Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī, Ibn Akhī Mīmī, al-Muʿāfā al-Jarīrī, and others of their circle in Baghdad, as well as from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kilābī and others in Damascus.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb transmitted from him and said (1): “He was reliable, one of the people of the Qur’an. He was born in 367 AH and died in Ṣafar 456 AH.”
I (the author) add: Those who narrated from him include Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Kādesh, Abū Ghālib ibn al-Bannāʾ, the judge Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī, and others.
We received his mashyakha from Abū Ḥafṣ al-Qawwās: al-Kindī informed us; Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn informed us.
Those who died in the same year were: Abū al-Walīd al-Darbandī (2); the qāḍī of Córdoba, Sirāj ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Umawī (3); Shams al-Aʾimmah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥalwāʾī (4); and the traditionist ʿAbd—