216 – Ibn al-Naḥḥās, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Anṣārī*
The shaykh, learned, righteous, and eminent; long-lived, the last of the elders, the pillar of the religion, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Majd al-Ḥasan⦗1⦘ ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Maḥāsin al-Anṣārī, a Damascene known as Ibn al-Naḥḥās al-Aṣamm.
He was born in Muḥarram of the year 572 AH, in Egypt.
He grew up in Damascus and heard hadith from the judge Abū Saʿd ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn—he was the last person to transmit directly from him—as well as from Ibn Ṣadaqah al-Ḥarrānī, al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bānyāsī, Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamzah ibn al-Mawāzīnī, Ismāʿīl al-Janzawī, and others.
In Isfahan he heard from ʿAlī ibn Manṣūr al-Thaqafī and Aḥmad ibn Abī Naṣr al-Ṣabbāgh.
In Nishapur he heard from al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī and Manṣūr al-Furāwī.
In Aleppo he heard from al-Iftikhār al-Hāshimī.
He was a man of piety, merit, and goodness. He owned real estate that provided for his upkeep, and he used to dictate hadith himself in the Place of the Deaf.
Ibn al-Ṣābūnī compiled a fascicle of his narrations.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Dimyāṭī, al-Badr ibn al-Tūzī, al-Kamāl Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās, al-Jamāl ʿAlī ibn al-Shāṭibī, al-Shams Muḥammad ibn al-Zarrād, and several others.