and he prepared critical notes on the book of Abū Naṣr al-Kalābadī, on al-Dāraqutnī’s Muʾtalif, and on Muslim’s Kunyas. Yet he was accused of Muʿtazilite tendencies, and after he wrote treatises on predestination (qadar) and on the Qur’an, people began to shun him.⦗1⦘
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 489 AH.
72 – The Jurist Naṣr Abū al-Fath ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr al-Nābulusī
The shaykh, the imām, the erudite scholar, the exemplar, the ḥadīth master, the teacher of greater Syria, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū al-Fath Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Dāwūd al-Nābulusī al-Maqdisī, the jurist, the Shāfiʿī, author of numerous works and dictations.
Birth: he was born sometime before 410 AH. He travelled to Damascus before the age of thirty, where he heard Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Simsār, a student of the jurist Abū Zayd al-Marwazī. He also received ḥadīth from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ṭubayz⦗2⦘ and from Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad
(1) Muʿjam al-Buldan, 5/381, quoting Qadi ʿIyad: “He also composed a work on qadar (predestination), the Qurʾan, and other controversial doctrines. People therefore lost interest in him, and several senior shaykhs of al-Andalus stopped narrating hadith from him. Abu Bakr Ibn Sufyan Ibn al-ʿAsim had studied with him but denied the opinion for which he was blamed and the book ascribed to him. Yet the book eventually came to light, and a trustworthy person related that he had seen it, bearing the audition note and handwriting of a reliable disciple.”
(*) Further biographical references: Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 17, p. 269; Ibn al-Jawzi, Tabyin Kadhib al-Muftari, pp. 286–287; Ibn al-Abar, Muʿjam, p. 199; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ, 2/125–126; al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam, 2/19; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 3/329; Ibn Wasil, ʿUyūn al-Tawarikh, 13/fols. 78–79; Ibn al-Imad, Mirʾat al-Jinan, 3/152; al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Shafiʿiyya, 5/351–353; al-Isnawi, Tabaqat al-Shafiʿiyya, 2/389–390; al-Nuwayri, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 5/160; al-Samhudi, al-Ans al-Jalil, p. 264; Ibn Hidayat Allah, Tabaqat, p. 181; al-Ziyarat, MS fol. 14a; Hajji Khalifa, Kashf al-Zunun, pp. 58, 98; Ibn al-Subki, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/395–396; Ismail Pasha, Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin, 2/490; Ismail Pasha, Idah al-Maknun, 1/129; Muntakhabat al-Tawarikh li-Dimashq, p. 469.
(2) The person meant is the centenarian musnid Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd al-Aziz ibn Ahmad al-Halabi al-Siraj, known as Ibn al-Tabiz, who died in 431/1040–41; his biography appeared earlier in volume seventeen.