—on the Companions. He transmitted abundantly from Abū Muḥammad Ibn al-Faras; people narrated from him, and he was fully qualified for that.
He died in Shaʿbān, 619 AH.
111 – Ibn al-Ḥuṣrī, Abū al-Futūḥ Naṣr ibn Abī al-Faraj *
The shaykh, the imām, the scholar, the meticulous ḥadīth master, Qur’an reciter and expert in tajwīd, Shaykh of the Ḥaram and Imām of the Ḥaṭīm, Burhān al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ Naṣr ibn Abī al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Faraj al-Baghdādī, the Ḥanbalī, known as Ibn al-Ḥuṣrī.
Born: in Ramadan 536 AH.
While still a youth he studied the various canonical readings with Abū al-Karam Ibn al-Shahruzūrī and others.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Bakr Ibn al-Zāghūnī, Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī, Abū Ṭālib al-ʿAlawī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Turaykī, Abū Muḥammad Ibn al-Mādih, Hibat Allāh al-Shiblī, Hibat Allāh al-Daqqāq, Ibn al-Baṭṭī, Abū Zurʿah, and many after them. He wrote extensively, devoted himself to ḥadīth, and was reliable, perceptive, and alert.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He recited (1) the many readings before a number of scholars, such as Abū Bakr Ibn…"