He passed away in (1) 656 AH, and I received hadith from roughly sixty of his students.
225 – al-Nushbī, Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Qāsim al-Rabaʿī
The imam and hadith scholar Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Qāsim al-Rabaʿī, known as al-Nushbī, the Damascene, a man of proven integrity.
He began the study of hadith late in life, hearing it from al-Khushūʿī, al-Qāsim, Ḥanbal, and their contemporaries.
Eloquent, pleasant-voiced, and grammatically precise, he first worked as a tutor, then served as a certified court witness.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Dumyāṭī, Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyyah, Ibn al-Khallāl, Muḥammad ibn Khaṭīb Bayt al-Abbār, and others. He also acted as deputy in the office of hisbah (market oversight).
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal (2) 656 AH at the age of ninety-plus years.
226 – al-Bakrī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh, imam, hadith scholar, instructor, itinerant seeker, senior transmitter, the ornament of the shaykhs, a foremost authority