2 – Nāṣiḥ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Najm ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anṣārī
The shaykh, the imām, the unrivaled mufti, the eminent preacher, Nāṣiḥ al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Najm, son of the Imām Sharaf al-Islām Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, son of the great shaykh Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Anṣārī al-Saʿdī al-ʿUbādī—originally from Shīrāz, later of greater Syria: first Jerusalem, then Damascus—a Ḥanbalī.
He was born in 554 AH ⦗1⦘.
He devoted himself to the study of jurisprudence, excelled in preaching, travelled widely, and heard ḥadīth from: Shahda al-Kātiba, Tajannī al-Wahbāniyya, Abū Shākir Yaḥyā al-Saqlāṭūnī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, Muslim ibn Thābit, Niʿma bint al-Qāḍī Abī Khāzim ibn al-Farrāʾ, and a number of others in Baghdad; from Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī and Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Turk in Isfahān; and from ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ in Hamadhān.
Those who transmitted from him include: Ibn al-Dubaythī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Barzalī, al-Mundhirī, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ṣābūnī, al-Shams ibn Ḥāzim, al-ʿIzz ibn al-ʿImād, al-Taqī ibn Muʾmin, Naṣr Allāh ibn ʿAyyāsh, ʿAlī ibn Baqāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Buṭṭīkh, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dabbāgh, al-Shihāb ibn Musharraf, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Wāsiṭī, and Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim.