Naṣr al-Baghdādī, the jurist and authority on the laws of inheritance.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narsī, Suraij ibn Yūnus, ʿUbayd Allah al-Qawārīrī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, and several others.
He was highly proficient in the reading of Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, an Imām in jurisprudence, and a scholar of great standing.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Bawwāb, Abū al-Faḍl ʿUbayd Allah al-Zuhrī, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, and a group besides them.
He has been declared trustworthy.
He passed away in 314 AH.
His brother, the reliable ḥadith scholar:
256 – Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim *
The brother of Abū al-Layth.
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Luwain, Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl, Abū Hammām, and al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥammād Sajjādah.
Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn and Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī narrated from him.
Al-Khaṭīb judged him trustworthy.
He lived ninety-eight years and died in 320 AH, in Dhul-Ḥijjah.