- Miṣmār ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā, better known as Ibn al-ʿUways
The shaykh, scholar, Qur’an instructor, upright and virtuous musnid; Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿUways al-Nayyār, a well-known Baghdadi.
He later settled in Mosul, where he taught the Qur’an and narrated hadith. He heard extensively from Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmawī, Ibn Nāṣir, Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ, Abū Bakr ibn al-Zāghūnī, Abū al-Waqt, and Ibn Nāqa. It was said that his given name was Muḥammad, and that the vizier Ibn Hubayra nicknamed him “Miṣmār” (nail). As a small boy who scarcely moved while attending hadith sessions, Ibn Hubayra remarked, “He is like a nail.” He became famous for his piety.
Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn al-Dubaythī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Birzālī, Rukn al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Qurṭāy al-Irbilī, ʿAbbās ibn Bazwān ⦗1⦘, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Manṣūr al-Atharī, Sayyida bint Dirbās, and a number of others.
He granted licences to al-ʿImād ibn Saʿd and to ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim ⦗2⦘.
He died in Mosul on the twelfth of Shaʿbān, 619 AH, and was born in 538 AH ⦗3⦘.