Nasr ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Farsi
- Died
- 461 AH
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Nasr ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Farsi (d. 461 AH / 1069 CE) was a Persian scholar of Qur'anic recitation (qira'at) and hadith transmitter who settled in Egypt, where he became the region's foremost reciter and transmitter.
Lineage and Education
His full name was Nasr ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Ahmad ibn Nuh, with the kunya Abu al-Husayn (and in some transmission records, Abu al-Hasan), and the regional nisbas al-Farisi and al-Shirazi. He studied Qur'anic recitation under several prominent masters, including Abu Bakr al-Naqqash, Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Shadhdha'i, and Ali ibn Ja'far. In Dhu al-Hijjah 411 AH, he read the grammatical and variant readings treatise al-Muhtasib from beginning to end with Ali ibn Zayd al-Qashani, who had heard it directly from its author, Ibn Jinni.
He engaged in extensive parallel study with Abu Ali al-Maliki al-Baghdadi; as reported by his student Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Fahham, he stated that he recited the entire Qur'an according to all the transmissions and methods documented in al-Maliki's Kitab al-Rawdah directly with all of al-Maliki's teachers mentioned in the work, matching al-Maliki section by section and completion by completion. Ibn al-Jazari noted that this parallel transmission elevated the chain of transmission through him over that of al-Maliki by one narrator.
Scholarly Career and Standing
He relocated to Egypt, where he served as the chief reciter (muqri) and hadith transmitter (musnid) of the Egyptian lands. During his residence in Egypt, he authored al-Jami fi al-Ashr (The Comprehensive Guide to the Ten Recitations). He also held dictation sessions (amali) for hadith, including an assembly recorded by his student Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Ali ibn al-Jarud.
Scholars regarded him as an upright, trustworthy authority and an exacting chain transmitter. Among those who transmitted from him and studied his recitations were Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Fahham (the author of al-Tajrid) and Ibrahim ibn Isma'il ibn Ghalib al-Khayyat.
He died in 461 AH (1069 CE).
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List of Works
Majlis min Imla al-Farisi wa Majlisan min Imla al-Bukhari (A Dictation Session of al-Farisi and Two Dictation Sessions of al-Bukhari) is a short classical collection of hadith and scholarly reports. It brings together traditions and reports delivered across three dictation assemblies (amālī) in the fifth century AH.