the jurist Naṣr al-Miṣṣīṣī reproached him, saying, “You know how much we need it!”

He replied, “Do not fret over having missed it. In due course this world will bring you what will suffice you.” Events turned out exactly as he had foreseen. (1)

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir said: He—may Allah have mercy on him—remained upon a single, unwavering path of asceticism, shunning worldly comforts and living in austerity. One of the scholars told me:

“I kept company with Imām al-Ḥaramayn in Khurasan and with Shaykh Abū Isḥāq in Baghdad; in my estimation, the latter’s way was superior to that of Imām al-Ḥaramayn. Then I came to Syria and met the jurist Abū al-Fath, and his way was better than both of theirs.” (2)

I say: The jurist Naṣr was also known as Ibn Abī Ḥāʾiṭ. He compiled the book Al-Intikhāb al-Dimashqī in a little over a dozen volumes; he also wrote Al-Tahdhīb on the school of law in ten tomes; and he authored Al-Kāfī on the school, a single volume that contains neither variant positions nor subsidiary analyses.

He lived a little over eighty years—may Allah have mercy on him—and was buried in the Bāb al-Ṣaghīr cemetery.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim said: He died in Muḥarram of the year 490 AH.

I add: In his teaching sessions there were mistakes and weak hadiths.

I read to Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAqīl al-ʿAbbāsī in his garden: al-Faḍl ibn ʿAqīl ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAbbāsī—whose reliability was affirmed—related to us, in the year