and, by written authorisation, Fāṭimah bint Sulaymān.
He was devout and upright, descended from a family noted for transmission and integrity, but he lost his sight late in life.
His nisbah is taken from al-Nars, a river that flows between al-Ḥillah and Kūfa; from the same place came Ubayy al-Narsi.
He died on 3 Rajab 628 AH.
As for al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Narsi and his kin, their nisbah was traced to the ancestor Naṣr; after the name passed into non-Arabic usage it became “Nars” (1).
185 – Yāqūt Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Rūmī, client of Abū Manṣūr al-Jīlī *
The accomplished man of letters, Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Rūmī, was a poet and the client of the merchant Abū Manṣūr al-Jīlī.
He studied at the Niẓāmiyya College, adopted for himself the name ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (2), memorised the Quran, mastered the literary sciences, and excelled in verse. He is the one who composed the following lines (3):
(1) This is the author’s own judgement regarding al-Abbas b. al-Walid al-Narsi, a statement he repeats in al-Mushtabih (p. 636); al-Dhahabi merely followed earlier opinions. By contrast, al-Samani in al-Ansab and Ibn al-Athir in al-Lubab trace this Abbas to the river locality of al-Nars mentioned above. They—and likewise al-Mundhiri—add that the person who should properly bear this nisba is Abd al-Ala b. Hammad b. Nasr al-Narsi (see Takmilat al-Mundhiri, 1/293). For further details, consult our note on al-Abbas b. al-Walid in Tahdhib al-Kamal.
(*) Principal biographical sources: Yaqut, Irshad al-Arib, 7/267; Ibn al-Shi‘ar, Uqud al-Juman, 9, fol. 175; al-Mundhiri, Takmilah, 3, entry 2041; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-A‘yan, 6/122-126; al-Najum al-Zahira, 5/283; al-Yafi‘i, Mirat al-Jinan, 4/49; Ibn al-Furat, Tarikh, 10, fol. 66; Ibn al-‘Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5/105-106.
(2) For this reason Ibn al-Dubaythi placed his notice in the section on people named Abd al-Rahman, fol. 36 (Cambridge MS).
(3) Wafayat al-A‘yan, 6/123.