al-Hasan, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Najā ibn Ghanāʾim al-Anṣārī, a Damascene Ḥanbalī who later lived on al-Shāriʿ in Cairo, commonly known as Ibn Nujayyah.
He was born in Damascus in 508 AH.
He heard hadith from ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Qubays al-Mālikī, and from his maternal uncle Sharaf al-Islām ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, son of the shaykh Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanbalī.
In Baghdad he studied with Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ashqar, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, Ibn Nāṣir, and Mawhūb ibn al-Jawāliqī.
At the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā in Baghdad he also listened to ʿAbd al-Ṣabūr ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Harawī.
Among his other teachers were the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī and Saʿd al-Khayr al-Anṣārī; he married Saʿd al-Khayr’s daughter, the musnidah Fāṭimah.
Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī recorded from him a single narration (1).
He preached for a period in the congregational mosque of al-Qarāfah.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Khalīl, Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ, Muḥammad ibn al-Bahāʾ, and Abū—