182 – Ibn Ṭalāb, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qurashī
The shaykh, imām, reliable authority, Qurʾān reciter, and preacher of Damascus: Abū Naṣr Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalāb al-Qurashī al-Dimashqī, a client of ʿĪsā ibn Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Taymī.
He transmitted ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ through his Muʿjam, from Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr, ʿAṭiyyat Allāh al-Ṣaydāwī, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Abū al-Fityān al-Ruʾāsī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Qubays, Jamāl al-Islām ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarqandī, and others.
Al-Nasīb said, “He is reliable and trustworthy (1).”
Ibn Qubays reported: “Ibn Ṭalāb amassed a large fortune through agency work. He told me, ‘When I had completed seventy years of age I said to myself, “The most I shall live is another ten years,” so I allocated one hundred dinars for each of those years.’ He lived beyond that span, and he owned property (2) in al-Shāghūr (3).”
Al-Nasīb also said, “I asked him about his birth, and he replied, ‘At the end of the year 379 AH, in Ṣaydā (Sidon).’”