- al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd ibn Naṣr al-Bāhilī (his narrations appear in al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and al-Nasāʾī)
He was the ḥāfiẓ, imām, and authoritative scholar Abū al-Faḍl al-Bāhilī, known as al-Narsī, from Basra, and a cousin of the hadith transmitter ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād.
“Nars” is in fact their grandfather Naṣr; some non-Arabs would call to him, “Yā Naṣr,” but because of his imperfect pronunciation it came out “Yā Nars,” and the name stuck.
He heard hadith from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Madīnī, Abū ʿAwanah, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, and several others.
A meticulous transmitter and devoted scholar of hadith, those who reported from him include al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and—through an intermediary—al-Nasāʾī, as well as Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAbbār, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Qāḍī al-Marwazī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, al-Baghawī, and others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable and even preferred him to his cousin ʿAbd al-Aʿlā.
He died in 237 AH, although another report gives 238.
Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad and ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān informed us, saying: Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd narrated to us; Abū ʿAwanah narrated to us, from ʿUmar ibn Abī Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: