Ibn ʿAsākir said: “He was reliable, scrupulous and alert, keeping to his house in Darb al-Naqqāsha or to his lodging in the Eastern Minaret of the mosque. He was a jurist and mufti who taught grammar and the laws of inheritance. Fervently devoted to the Sunnah and fond of the people of hadith, he told me more than once, ‘I hope Allah will, through you, revive this discipline in this city.’ He never narrated except from his own autographed originals, and I heard a great deal from him. He died on the Day of ʿArafah, in the year 530 AH.”
Al-Silafī said: “He lived by the Minaret; he was an ascetic, a devout worshipper, trustworthy—there was no one like him in Damascus in his day. He excelled in various branches of knowledge, a hadith scholar born of a hadith scholar (1).”
10 – The Qur’an-Reciter Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣāliḥ
The truthful, long-lived shaykh and leading transmitter, Abū Muḥammad Ismāʿīl, son of Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of Abū Bakr Ṣāliḥ al-Naysābūrī (2), the reciter.
Ibn Nuqṭa said: “He heard the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim from Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī, as well as the hadith collection of Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī (3), and he heard from Abū …"