Al-Muʾayyad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Salih al-Tusi—later known as al-Naysaburi—
was born in 524 AH.
In 530 AH he studied Sahih Muslim with al-Farawi (1).
He read Sahih al-Bukhari to Wajih (2), Abu al-Maʿali al-Farisi, and ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Shah.
He received al-Muwattaʾ (3) from Hibat Allah al-Sayyidi (4), apart from the early portions that had already been missed.
He also heard al-Thaʿlabi’s Tafsir (5) from ʿAbbasa (6) al-ʿAssari; most of al-Wahidi’s al-Wasit from ʿAbd al-Jabbar al-Khawari; Ibn Mihran’s al-Ghayah from Zahir ibn Tahir; al-Arbaʿin by al-Hasan ibn Sufyan from Fatimah bint Zaʿbal; the fascicle of Ibn Najid; and other texts for which he was the sole authority. Students travelled to him from every region.
He was trustworthy, devout, an accomplished Qur’an reciter, and highly esteemed.
Among those who narrated from him are the erudite Jamal al-Din Mahmud ibn al-Hasiri, Ibn al-Salah, the judge al-Khuʾi, Ibn Nuqtah, al-Barzali, and Ibn al-Najjar,