Ibn Khallikān (1) said: “He was God-fearing and righteous, and his work al-Shāmil is one of the soundest books produced by our Shāfiʿī scholars and the strongest in the way it marshals proofs. When the Niẓāmiyya college first opened he was the inaugural lecturer, but after twenty days he was replaced by Abū Isḥāq in the year 459 AH. The endowment’s founder had originally designated Abū Isḥāq; the people therefore assembled for him, yet Abū Isḥāq did not appear. They brought Abū Naṣr, installed him, and Abū Isḥāq’s followers were pained by this, so they stopped attending his circle and wrote to Abū Isḥāq saying that unless he took up teaching at the Niẓāmiyya they would keep to Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh and abandon him. Abū Isḥāq acceded to their request, and Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh was dismissed.

Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī stated: “Shaykh Abū Naṣr died on Tuesday, the thirteenth of Jumādā al-Ūlā, 477 AH, and was buried the next day at his home in Darb al-Salūlī.” (2)

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī added: “He was later moved to the cemetery of Bāb Ḥarb.”

His Father

15 – Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh Abū Ṭāhir al-Shāfiʿī, the dealer (mentioned earlier)

The Imām, mufti, distinguished and erudite scholar Abū Ṭāhir ibn al-Ṣabbāgh al-Shāfiʿī, the dealer.

He heard ḥadith from: Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, ʿAlī ibn Mardak (3), al-Muʿāfā al-Jarīrī, and Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ḥabābah.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Narsī, and others.