al-Qāsim al-Turkī, al-Shāshī, al-Tunkutī.
Tunkut is a town that belongs to the district of Shāsh.
He was born in 406 AH.
In his later years he heard ḥadith from: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Taffāl in Egypt; Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Fārisī; Ibn Masrūr in Nīshāpūr; al-Khaṭīb in Tyre; in Alexandria from al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Maʿāfirī; and in al-Andalus from Ibn Dilhāth.
He roamed the lands as both a merchant and a muḥaddith, and his wealth became exceedingly great.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarqandī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī, Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-ʿUkbarī, and Ṭāhir ibn Mufawwiz.
He recited the Ṣaḥīḥ in al-Andalus (1), and he was devout, God-fearing, dignified, a leading figure, and generous in charity.
He died in 486 AH (2) — may Allah have mercy on him.
51 – al-Dabūsī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Ḥamza ibn Zayd*
The erudite scholar, shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Abī Yaʿlā al-Muẓaffar ibn
= Al-Muntazam, 9:79–80; Bughyat al-Multamis, p. 476; Muʿjam al-Buldan, 2:50, where Yaqut notes that the second consonant (kaf) is read with a ḍamma; al-Lubab, 1:224-225; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 10:227-228; al-Ibar, 3:314; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3:1200, where the nisba appears in the corrupted form “al-Shakti”; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3:379, where it is further distorted to “al-Sakshi.”
(1) Al-Ansab states that he gained renown for transmitting Sahih Muslim throughout Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus from Abu l-Husayn ʿAbd al-Ghafir ibn Muhammad al-Farisi. See also: al-Muntazam, 9:80; al-Sila, 2:637; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 10:228; Jadhwat al-Muqtabis, p. 356; Bughyat al-Multamis, p. 476.
(2) Al-Ansab, 3:90; al-Muntazam, 9:80. Ibn Bashkuwal (2:638) quotes Ibn Qasim to the effect that he died in Sur, while Tahir ibn Mafwaz reports his death in Tripoli of Syria in 471/1078-79.
(*) Al-Ansab, 5:275-276; al-Muntazam, 9:50; Muʿjam al-Buldan, 2:438.