2 – Al-Ṭūsī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Naṣr
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, reliable authority, and widely-travelled scholar, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Naṣr al-Ṭūsī, nicknamed Kardūsh (1).
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ, Muḥammad ibn Aslam, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Bundār (2), Zayd ibn Akhzam (3), and al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār—from whom he obtained the book al-Nasab—in addition to many other teachers.
Narrations on his authority were transmitted by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Isfarāyīnī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs, Abū Sahl al-Ṣuʿlūkī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Bustī, and a host of others.
His own teacher Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī also related various anecdotes from him. He taught and narrated in Herat and in Qazvīn.
(*) Tarikh Jurjan, p. 143; Akhbar Isfahan, vol. 1, pp. 262-263; al-Ikmal, vol. 7, p. 169; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 3, pp. 787-788; Mizan al-I‛tidal, vol. 1, p. 509; Lisan al-Mizan, vol. 2, pp. 232-233; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 2, p. 264; al-Risala al-Mustatrafa, pp. 30-31.
(1) This is the vocalization found in the base manuscript, with the word verified by the copyist’s “sahh” mark; al-Dhahabi follows the same spelling in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3/787. Ibn Makula, however, writes the name without the letter waw: “Kuradash” (with ra, dal, then the dotted shin), and identifies him as al-Hasan ibn ‛Ali al-Tusi (al-Ikmal, 7/169).
(2) He is Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Bashar ibn ‛Uthman al-‛Abdi al-Basri, a trustworthy hadith scholar. His nickname “Bundar” is Persian and means “the keeper” or “the collector”; he received it because he compiled the hadiths of Malik. His full biography appeared earlier in vol. 12, entry 52.
(3) The manuscript reads “Ahzam,” which is incorrect.