Nasīb al-Dawla, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥasan, son of the distinguished dignitary Abū al-Jinn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl, descendant of the chief of the Hāshimites Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad al-Bāqir ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, son of the martyr, the Prophet’s grandson and “sweet basil,” Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn Imam ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib—the ʿAlid, the Ḥusaynid, the Damascene.
He was a highly esteemed figure, a dignified sayyid, a trustworthy ḥadith scholar, a nobleman of enviable repute, steadfast upon the Sunnah and the mainstream community, devoted to the transmitted reports and their narration. Everyone spoke well of him. The ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb selected from his narrations twenty fascicles that we have heard; they are known as “Fawāʾid al-Nasīb,” and their contents appear throughout most of al-Khaṭīb’s works (1).
Birth: 424 AH.
He learned Qur’an recitation from the master Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī and others.
In 438 AH (2) and thereafter he heard ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr al-Tamīmī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Sulwān al-Māzinī, Rashaʾ ibn Naẓīf, Salīm ibn Ayyūb the jurist, the judge Muḥammad ibn Salāmah al-Quḍāʿī, Karīmah al-Marwaziyya, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥinnāʾī, his father Mustakhṣ al-Dawla, al-Khaṭīb, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Hibat Allah ibn al-Akfānī, al-Khaḍir ibn Shibl al-Ḥārithī, ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir, and Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir,