I add: Among those who transmitted from him were al-Barzalī, ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥājib, and al-Qūṣī.
Ibn al-Ḥājib remarked, “He had a share in many fields of knowledge.”
I further state: He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 623 AH and was buried in his own house near al-Qulayjiyya.
143 – Ibn Bāz, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr al-Mawṣilī *
The ḥāfiẓ, the imām, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr ibn Ḥasan ibn Saʿd, known as Ibn Bāz of Mosul, a merchant and itinerant trader.
A ḥadith scholar—precise and reliable.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, Shuhda al-Kātiba, Lāḥiq ibn Kārih, Abū Shākir al-Saqlāṭūnī, and several others.
Among those who related on his authority to us was al-Abarqūhī; Ibn Masdī copied his narrations, as did the well-travelled scholar. He devoted many years to ḥadith, travelled for trade to Egypt and Syria, and later became the shaykh of the Muẓaffariyya Dār al-Ḥadīth in Mosul.
He was born in 552 AH.
In Mosul he also received transmission from its khaṭīb,