—from Egypt: Muḥammad b. Barakāt al-Saʿīdī, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-Faḥḥām, al-Rāzī (1), and a number of others.
Al-Ḥarīrī, the author of the Maqāmāt, likewise granted him written licence in the year 512 AH (2), as did Abū Ṭālib al-Yūsufī, Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Mahdī, and several others.
He narrated copiously, possessed some unique transmissions (3), and crowds of students gathered around him.
Those who received ḥadith from him include his children—Ibrāhīm, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, ʿAbd Allāh, Sitt al-ʿAjam, Sittuhum—together with Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Yaldānī, Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Tilmīsānī, al-Zayn Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, al-Shihāb al-Qūṣī, the shaykh’s grandson Barakāt b. Ibrāhīm, the preacher Dāʾūd b. ʿUmar, ʿUbayd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ṭiʿān, and his brother ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAlī b. al-Muẓaffar al-Nushabī (4) and his son (5) Muḥammad; the preacher ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Karīm Ibn al-Harastānī, Faraj al-Ḥabashī, Firās Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī, and Shaykh, the jurist, Muḥammad.
(1) That is, Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Razi.
(2) Meaning: “and five hundred,” i.e. the figure 500 that completes the date.
(3) He alone is known to have heard directly from Ibn al-Akfani mentioned above, and he is likewise the sole recipient of ijaza from al-Hariri, Ibn al-Fahham, and Abu Bakr Muhammad b. al-Walid al-Turtushi.
(4) The autograph reads “al-Bashti,” a scribal slip. Al-Dhahabi, in al-Mushtabih, corrects it to al-Nashabi, derived from Nashaba, a clan; the hadith scholar Ali b. al-Muzaffar b. al-Qasim al-Nashabi al-Dimashqi heard from al-Khushu‘i and his contemporaries, and his sons Abu Bakr Muhammad and Abu al-Izz Muzaffar later transmitted. Al-Dimyati copied their narrations (p. 74). Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi spells the name explicitly: initial nun with damma, shin with dot and sukun, then ba with kasra (Zahiriyya MS, fol. 57/1). Al-Dhahabi’s claim that Nashaba is a branch of Qays is doubtful; Nashaba here is Nashaba b. Rabi‘ b. ‘Amr of Taym al-Rabab. Al-Dhahabi himself records the correct lineage under the letter shin in al-Mushtabih, p. 348: “The traditionist Ali b. al-Muzaffar al-Nashabi, whose descendants trace back to Nashaba b. Rabi‘, a branch of Taym al-Rabab.”
(5) That is, Muhammad b. Ali b. al-Muzaffar al-Nashabi.