al-Fatḥ Naṣr ibn Fityān ibn Maṭar ibn al-Mannī al-Nahrawānī, a Hanbalī.

He was born in 501 AH.

He studied law under Abū Bakr al-Dīnawarī, remaining with him until he became accomplished in fiqh.

Among those from whom he received hadith were Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Bāriʿ, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Khallāl, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Zāghūnī, and others.

He assumed the lecturer’s seat, and students flocked to him in great numbers.

Those who gained their juristic training from him include Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and al-Fakhr Ismāʿīl.

Transmitters from him were Abū Ṣāliḥ Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Muḥammad ibn Muqbil ibn al-Mannī—his brother’s son—and a group besides them.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was pious, devoted, of dignified appearance, following the path of the early generations. In his final years his sight failed and his hearing grew weak, yet he continued teaching until he died in his mosque in the Maʾmūniyya.”

He died on the fifth of Ramaḍān, 583 AH. His bier was borne aloft on people’s shoulders; a contingent of Turks safeguarded the funeral because of the press of the crowds, after which he was buried in his own house.