Naṣr ibn Ṭughān al-ʿĀmirī, a native of al-Maḥalla who later settled in Alexandria and was better known as Ibn al-Jamal.
He was born at the beginning of 548 AH in al-Maḥalla.
He studied with Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī and Abū Muḥammad al-ʿUthmānī, and he alone preserved and transmitted certain individual fascicles.
He was descended from the line of Egyptian emirs (1).
Among those who narrated from him were al-Mundhirī, Ibn al-Najjār, Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyya, Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jabbāb, Abū Ṣādiq Muḥammad ibn al-Rashīd the perfumer, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dukkālī Suḥnūn, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf the ḥāfiẓ, al-Zayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Jabbāb, Khadīja bint Ghanīma, and a number of others.
Through written authorisation alone, Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Ḥaẓīrī, the Ḥanbalī judge, and Ibn Saʿd related from him.
He passed away on the eighteenth of Shaʿbān 638 AH, having surpassed ninety years of age.
For all the length of his life, he did not audition (hadith) in proportion to his years.
- Al-Māristānī — Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī*
The shaykh, the senior transmitter, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd