174 – Ubayy al-Narsī, Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Maymūn
The shaykh, imām, ḥāfiẓ, authoritative teacher, musnid, and hadith scholar of Kūfa: Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Maymūn ibn Muḥammad al-Narsī al-Kūfī, the Qur’an-reciter, nicknamed “Ubayy” because of the excellence of his recitation.
He was born in 424 AH.
He studied under Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAlawī; Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAṭṭār; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Faduwayh; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khāzim ibn Naffāṭ; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb al-Qādusī; Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī; Abū Bakr ibn Bishrān; Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī; the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī; Abū Manṣūr ibn al-Sawwāq; Karīma al-Marwaziyya, who resided near the Sacred Precinct; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bundār al-Shīrāzī; Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qafarjal; Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Shīṭā; and many others besides. He also attended lessons in Syria when he visited Jerusalem, and he would deputize for the preacher of Kūfa.
Those who narrated from him include the jurist Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī—despite his seniority—, Ibn Nāṣir, al-Silafī, Maʿālī ibn Abī Bakr al-Kayyāl, Muslim ibn Thābit, Muḥammad ibn Ḥaydara al-Ḥusaynī, and several others.
Abū al-Karam al-Shahzūrī recited to him the reading of ʿĀṣim (1) with its duly authenticated method.