49 – ʿAlī ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī (ʿ)
The Imām, the trustworthy ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Jahḍamī the Elder.
He narrated from Hishām al-Dastawāʾī, Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim al-ʿAbdī, Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt, Shuʿbah, al-Muthannā ibn Saʿīd, Qurrah ibn Khālid, Mahdī ibn Maymūn, Ṣakhr ibn Juwayriyah, Khālid ibn Qays al-Ḥuddānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Nāfiʿ, al-Qāsim ibn Maʿn, and many others besides them.
Those who narrated from him include his son Naṣr; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī; Abū Nuʿaym—both of whom were his contemporaries; Wakīʿ—who was senior to them; and Muʿallā ibn Asad.
Abū ʿAbdullāh ibn Ḥanbal said, “Sound in ḥadith; more reliable than Abū Muʿāwiyah.” (1)
Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Ḥātim, and al-Nasāʾī said, “Trustworthy.”
Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad said, “Truthful.”
Muṭayyin and others stated that he died in the year 187 AH.
As for the son of the subject of this entry, he is:
50 – ʿAlī ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAlī ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAlī ibn Ṣuhbān ** (M, D, T, S) ibn Ubayy—the ḥāfiẓ, the Imām, the firmly established authority, Abū