a dinar; yet he bought it from her for one thousand dinars, after which she delivered the money to the treasurer to be spent on the mosque, while he set the garment aside to serve as his own shroud (1).

It is also said that when the sultan passed by the gate of his mosque, he dismounted out of deference to him and exchanged greetings (2).

His merits were beyond counting.

He died in Dhu al-Qaʿda, 463 AH.

135 – al-Nakhshabī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad *
The shaykh, leading imam, hadith master, indefatigable traveler, and educator: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim al-Nasafī.

Nasaf is identical with Nakhshab (3).

He kept company with the hadith master Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Mustaghfirī and transmitted extensively from him. In Baghdad he met Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghaylān and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥarrānī; in Isfahan, Abū Bakr ibn Rīdhah; and likewise in Damascus and other regions.

Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ, Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāʾīnī, and a number of others.

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “I asked the hadith master Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad about him, and he praised him highly, saying, ‘That is al-Nakhshabī, that is al-Nakhshabī; he had an extraordinary memory (4).’”