and he was extreme in his Rāfiḍī (Shiʿite rejectionist) leanings, and his reliability in transmission was questioned. He died in 552 AH, as noted by Ibn al-Najjar and others. His given name was al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Khaṭṭāb.
200 – al-ʿUkbarī, Abū al-Qāsim Naṣr ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAlī *
The shaykh, imām, and preacher Abū al-Qāsim Naṣr ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAlī ibn Yūnus al-ʿUkbarī, a Shāfiʿī.
He was born in 466 AH.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Busrī, ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn Abī ʿUthmān, Niẓām al-Mulk, and Abū al-Layth al-Tankatī (1).
Those who narrated from him include al-Samʿānī, Ibn Sukaynah, Ibn al-Akhḍar, his grandson Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Naṣr, ʿAbd al-Salām al-Dāhirī, ʿUmar ibn Karam, Dāwūd ibn Mulāʿib, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Jawālīqī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qaṭīʿī, Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Razzāz, and others.
He granted authorisation to Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muqayyar.
Al-Samʿānī said: “A shaykh and preacher, cordial and humble.”
Ibn al-Najjar said: “He used to speak about the al-Aʿaziyya.”
Ibn al-Jawzī (2) said: “He was openly intelligent, delivering admonitions in the manner of the senior shaykhs,