Ibn Nuqṭah (1) said: “He is reliable, yet his handwriting is unlike that of those renowned for exactness.”

The ḥadith scholar ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muqarrib reported, on the authority of Nadā al-ʿUrḍī, who said:

“I read before Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Qāsim and pronounced, ‘ʿan Ibn Lahiʿah.’ He corrected me, insisting on the ḍammah (2)!”

I add: A certain muhaddith (3) stated that he met Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Qāsim in Medina and asked him to narrate. Al-Qāsim then recited a number of ḥadith from memory. The man later compared those narrations with their written originals and found them to be in full agreement. By exploits such as this a ḥadith scholar in our own day is judged to possess true memorization.

I have also been informed that the ḥāfiẓ Bahāʾ al-Dīn succeeded his father as shaykh of the Nūrīyah but never touched its stipend; instead, he would pass it on to anyone who travelled in search of ḥadith.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣaṣrā; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Mufaḍḍal; ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī; Yūsuf ibn Khalīl; his son, ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim; Abū al-Ṭāhir ibn al-Anmāṭī; al-Tāj al-Qurṭubī; his attendant Faraj; al-Taqī al-Yaldānī; al-Shihāb al-Qūṣī; ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Banīn; Badal ibn Abī al-Muʿammar al-Tabrīzī; al-Zayn Khālid ibn Yūsuf; al-Majd Muḥammad ibn ʿAsākir; and al-Taqī.