al-Ghassāl, the Baghdadi Shāfiʿī, was counted among the firmly reliable imams.
He was born in the twenties of the four-hundreds AH (c. 423–429 AH).
He studied under Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, and the judge Abū Yaʿlā.
In Qur’an recitation he read the various transmissions before Abū Bakr al-Khayyāṭ, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ghūrī, Abū ʿAlī Ghulām al-Harrās, and several others.
He later assumed the teaching chair for Qur’an recitation and became renowned; Abū Muḥammad Sibt al-Khayyāṭ and others recited to him (1).
Those who narrated from him include Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sinjī, Saʿd Allah ibn Muḥammad, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Kulayb, and others. Ibn Nāṣir judged him somewhat weak (2).
He passed away on the first of Jumādā al-Ūlā, 510 AH. He was a scholar who excelled in tajwīd and was thoroughly versed in Arabic.
212 – al-Nasīb, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAbbās*
The shaykh, imām, ḥadith scholar, noble sayyid and genealogist, the preacher of Damascus and its leading scholar,