The jurist Naṣr Allāh al-Maṣīṣī related from the jurist Naṣr who said:
“I met al-Qudāʿī, and had I wished to receive ḥadith from him I could have done so; but I held back out of scrupulous caution, for he used to compose letters on behalf of the Egyptians. Later, when I needed his material for my compilations, I transmitted from him on the strength of a written authorization.”

Naṣr Allāh went on: “The jurist Naṣr began his legal studies in Jerusalem, then travelled to Diyār Bakr, where he saw al-Kāzarūnī; afterwards he met Sulaym…,” until he said:
“His father was a Fāmī (1). The jurist himself was of medium stature, yet by the end nothing was left of him but flesh and bone. While in Jerusalem he would host banquets for his disciples and spend generously on them from an endowment that had been set aside for their benefit.”

73 – al-Nasafī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAlī *

He was an imām, ḥāfiẓ, and muḥaddith: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ibn Isrāfīl al-Nasafī, the son of Nasaf’s mufti, Qāḍī Abū al-Fawāris.

Born: 404 AH.

He received a vast amount of learning from the ḥāfiẓ Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Mustaghfirī, whom he kept close company with; from Abū Nuʿaym Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, the associate of Khalaf al-Khayyām; from Muʿtamid ibn Muḥammad al-Makhḥūlī; and from many others unknown to me. He narrated copiously in Bukhārā and Samarkand.

Those who reported from him include the muḥaddith ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Bīkandī, Abū Thābit al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Bazdawī, Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Naṣr, and others besides.

Al-Samʿānī and his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm managed to meet some of his pupils.